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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