Performance Anxiety in Media Culture: The Trauma of Appearance and the Drama of Disappearance

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.

• | Author: Steven Bailey
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Jan 06, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 227 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Social Science
• | ISBN-10: 1137557885
• | ISBN-13: 9781137557889