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Synopsis
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.
Synopsis
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