... Feminist cringe comedies eschew the conventions of romance and sentimentality in favor of comedy that discomforts. Cringe comedy in Joey Soloway’s I Love Dick (2016–17) does feminist political work by evoking laughter and the cringe via epistolary exchanges from the lead character Chris...

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... This chapter finds a paradigm for thinking about embarrassment in the music of pop artist Tori Amos because of the myriad ways in which embarrassed thinking and feeling haunts the production and reception of her work. Distinguishing embarrassment from shame and emphasizing the cringe rather than...

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... The cinema of experience, read through the cinema of Chantal Akerman and the phenomenology of Simone de Beauvoir, showcases experiences of ambivalence, stasis, horror, cringe, and plasticity. As theorized here, this form of cinema utilizes cinematic mechanisms to shift the gaze, create a new...