Performance Anxiety in Media Culture

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.

• Introduction—Faces on the Stage and Faces in the Stalls1. The Subject is Performance: Goffman as Dramaturgical Prophet2. Performance Anxiety: Role-ing with Lacan3. Liquid Stages and Melting Frames: Objective De-Stabilization4. From Looking to Being to Killing: Performance Anxiety in Recent French Language Cinema5. Protesting Disappearance: The Drama of the Stylish Self in the World of OOTD6. '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