Performance anxiety in media culture : the trauma of appearance and the drama of disappearance /

"Performance Anxiety in Media Culture explores the culture of performance anxiety in the media-saturated contemporary world. It uses comparative case studies including film, social media, and popular music to examine the ways that personal concern regarding self-presentation becomes transformed...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bailey, Steve, 1967- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Introduction
  • Faces on the Stage and Faces in the Stalls 1. The Subject is Performance: Goffman as Dramaturgical Prophet 2. Performance Anxiety: Role-ing with Lacan 3. Liquid Stages and Melting Frames: Objective De-Stabilization 4. From Looking to Being to Killing: Performance Anxiety in Recent French Language Cinema 5. Protesting Disappearance: The Drama of the Stylish Self in the World of OOTD 6. 'I Forgot to Remember to Forget' or, 'Rockabilly Rebel, What'cha Ya Gonna Do'? Conclusion: Performance as a Psycho-Existential Problem Or, Between Performance Studies and Performativity.