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Creepiness by Kotsko, Adam is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Creepiness about?

A specter is haunting contemporary television0́4the specter of creepiness. In our everyday lives, we try to avoid creepiness at every cost, shunning creepy people and recoiling in horror at the idea that we ourselves might be creeps. And yet when we sit down to watch TV, we are increasingly entranced by creepy characters. In this follow-up to Awkwardness and Why We Love Sociopaths, Adam Kotsko tries to account for the strange fascination of creepiness. In addition to surveying a wide range of contemporary examples0́4from Peep Show to Girls, from Orange is the New Black to Breaking Bad0́4Kotsko mines the television of his 90s childhood, marveling at the creepiness that seemed to be hiding in plain sight in shows like Full House and Family Matters. Using Freud as his guide through the treacherous territory of creepiness, Kotsko argues that we are fascinated by the creepy because in our own ways, we are all creeps. Read more... Abstract: A specter is haunting contemporary television0́4the specter of creepiness. In our everyday lives, we try to avoid creepiness at every cost, shunning creepy people and recoiling in horror at the idea that we ourselves might be creeps.

Who reads Creepiness?

Author

Kotsko, Adam

Publisher

John Hunt Publishing;Zero Publishing

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781782798453

Category

nonfiction