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

by Steven Bailey

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137557885
• ISBN13: 9781137557889
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 221 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"