Tina Kendall

Entertained or Else

Boredom and Networked Media

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Provides the first in-depth analysis of the relationship between boredom and networked media, particularly in the wake of the Coronavirus lockdowns.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 254g
• ISBN-13: 9798765107584
• Artikelnr.: 71250866

Autorenporträt

Tina Kendall is Associate Professor of Film & Media and Director of Research Students in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities, Education and Social Sciences at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, UK. She has a particular interest in negative or ambivalent feelings such as boredom and disgust. She has published widely on the ethics and aesthetics of extreme cinemas, and is the co-editor of The New Extremism in Cinema: From France to Europe 2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Always Entertained? Boredom and Networked Media
1. What To Do When You're Bored: Gendered Boredom and Networked Media
2. How to Look Bored: Bored Bodies and the Biopolitics of Faciality and
Gesture in Short-Form Video
3. Boredom-on-Demand: Always-On Subjects and Television's Ambient Turn
4. #Bored in the House: TikTok and the Rhythms of #LockdownLife
Epilogue: Unworking Entertainment: Public Boredom and the Next Normal
Notes
Index

Rezensionen

Tina Kendall's Entertained or Else makes a groundbreaking intervention into boredom studies by showing how social media and digital cultures of boredom generate their own creative potential. In an age where productivity is so highly valued, Kendall demonstrates boredom's capacity to feel otherwise, but also its ambivalence in being drawn back into wider regimes of power. The book takes us through the full range of affective, bodily, gestural, discursive and atmospheric ways that boredom moves us (or doesn't), while recognizing the wider political structures and intersectional inequalities that make such a project so vital in our times. It will be essential reading for anyone with an interest in digital media, cultural studies and researchers and students of emotion, feeling and affect.