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Title
Performance anxiety in media culture : the trauma of appearance and the drama of disappearance / Steven Bailey.
ISBN
9781137557896 (electronic book)
1137557893 (electronic book)
9781137557889
1137557885
Published
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Call Number
PN1590.P76 B36 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
791.01/9
Summary
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 into shared cultural expressions through the use of media technologies. Three initial chapters are dedicated to exploring the work of Erving Goffman, Jacques Lacan, and Jean Baudrillard as critical for a thorough understanding of how implications of a range of recent transformations in the methods for staging social performances are staged and in the ways that they are experienced and interpreted by others. Three subsequent chapters explore diverse case studies in the culture of performance anxiety: the representation of such anxieties in recent French cinema, the appearance of them in the world of fashion-based 'outfit of the day' blogs, and the attempt to refine a more fixed social persona in the nostalgic culture of rockabilly music.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed April 15, 2016).
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; 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 Ya Gonna Do'?
Conclusion: Performance as a Psycho-Existential Problem or, Between Performance Studies and PerformativityNotes; Works Cited; Index.
