Performance Anxiety in Media Culture The Trauma of Appearance and th
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 regardin
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Performance Anxiety in Media Culture The Trauma of Appearance and the Drama of Disappearance Steve Bailey York University, Canada
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ISBN 978-1-349-56853-6 ISBN 978-1-137-55789-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137557896 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bailey, Steve, 1967– Performance anxiety in media culture : the trauma of appearance and the drama of disappearance / Steve Bailey. pages cm Includes index. 1. Performing arts—Psychological aspects. I. Title. PN1590.P76B36 2016 791.01 9—dc23
2. Performance anxiety. 2015027218
Contents
Acknowledgments
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Introduction: Faces on the Stage and Faces in the Stalls
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1 The Subject is Performance: Goffman as Dramaturgical Prophet
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2 Performance Anxiety: Role-ing with Lacan
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3 Liquid Stages and Melting Frames: Objective De-Stabilization
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4 From Looking to Being to Killing: Performance Anxiety in Recent French Language Cinema
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5 Protesting Disappearance: The Drama of the Stylish Self in the World of OOTD
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6 ‘I Forgot to Remember to Forget’ or, ‘Rockabilly Rebel, What Ya Gonna Do’?
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Conclusion: Performance as a Psycho-Existential Problem or, Between Performance Studies and Performativity
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Notes
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Works Cited
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Index
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