AWKWARDNESS by Adam Kotsko ( 9781846943911 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

AWKWARDNESS

By:

Adam Kotsko

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

1846943914

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9781846943911

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Publisher:

JOHN HUNT PUBLISHING

Pub. date:

14 October, 2010

Description:

Argues that the awkwardness of our age is a key to understanding human experience.

Synopsis:

Awkwardness has been one of the defining traits of the awkwardly unnamed first decade of our young century, dominating comedy on both the big and small screens. Could this trend point toward something deeper? In Awkwardness, Adam Kotsko answers that question with a resounding yes. Drawing on key insights of cultural theory, he argues that awkwardness is a structuring principle of human experience, something that the particular conditions of our time allow us to see with greater clarity than ever before. In an analysis that begins with the difference between the US and UK versions of Ricky Gervais's The Office, passes through the films of Judd Apatow, and culminates in the apotheosis of awkwardness, Larry David's Curb Your Enthusiasm, Kotsko looks at the ways we cope with our awkwardness and the unexpected opportunities awkwardness opens up when we stop resisting it and learn to enjoy it.

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