The Casual Horror of Boredom in Tiger King
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12918199 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pavithra Prasad (0000-0002-7727-7660, California State University, Northridge, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 571-573 |
| Publication date | 2020-10-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Communication Culture and Critique (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1753-9137 • E-ISSN: 1753-9129 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ccc/tcaa030 |
| OpenAlex | W3117368482 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 1 |
There is something nasty to be said about a television program that so accidentally yet perfectly captures the abject experience of living through a late stage of civilizational putrefaction. The acrid humor of the Netflix docuseries Tiger King was the right flavor for the mounting grievances and absurdities of the year 2020, its nightmarish politics, our sudden and rapid disabling at the hands of a global pandemic, and a growing acceptance of the possibility that we may have driven the car off the edge of the cliff. It seemed that as we hung in the threshold between normalcy and apocalypse, the release of Tiger King coincided with our immediate need to process collective feeling, mutual comfort, and momentary reassurance, as the pathologies of global capitalism and bioinsecurities (Ahuja, 2016) took up residence in our living rooms. Yet the visceral experience of watching this particular series, in addition to delivering the entertaining schadenfreude it presumed to offer, also exposed a rhythmic conditioning to shock and awe that produced our banal abjection as spectators of crises. If it seems too simple to suggest that mere escapism from grim realities propelled Tiger King into being an omnipresent text with an extensive discursive reach, it is probably because there remains, at least for me, a lingering aftertaste of something bitter and hopeless that has successfully ruined the experience of cackling and balking through binge-watching every episode with a group of friends on Zoom
Aesthetics · Art · Boredom · Casual · Computer security · Political science · Tiger · Cinema and Media Studies · Computer Science · Mind wandering and attention · Psychology · Law · Social Psychology
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| Highly cited | No |
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