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Performance Anxiety in Media Culture: The Trauma of Appearance and the Drama of Disappearance
Steven Bailey
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Hardback. This book 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. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; KNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 415.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
415g
Number of Pages
221
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137557889
SKU
V9781137557889
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99-15
About Steven Bailey
Steven Bailey is Associate Professor in the Departments of Humanities and Science and Technology Studies at York University in Toronto, Canada. He is the author of Media Audiences and Identity (2005) and former director of the Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture at York University.
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