Performance Anxiety in Media Culture - The Trauma of Appearance and the Drama of Disappearance (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)

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.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2016
First published:	2016
Authors:	Steven Bailey
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	221
Edition:	1st ed. 2016
ISBN-13:	978-1-137-55788-9
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Media, information & communication industries > General
LSN:	1-137-55788-5
Barcode:	9781137557889

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