Performance and Professional Wrestling
Herausgeber: Chow, Broderick; Warden, Claire; Laine, Eero
Performance and Professional Wrestling
Herausgeber: Chow, Broderick; Warden, Claire; Laine, Eero
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Performance and Professional Wrestling is the first edited volume to consider professional wrestling explicitly from the vantage point of theatre and performance studies. Moving beyond simply noting its performative qualities or reading it via other performance genres, this collection of essays offers a complete critical reassessment of the popular sport.
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Performance and Professional Wrestling is the first edited volume to consider professional wrestling explicitly from the vantage point of theatre and performance studies. Moving beyond simply noting its performative qualities or reading it via other performance genres, this collection of essays offers a complete critical reassessment of the popular sport.
Produktdetails
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- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
- Seitenzahl: 226
- Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2016
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 20mm
- Gewicht: 373g
- ISBN-13: 9781138937239
- ISBN-10: 1138937231
- Artikelnr.: 43676923
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
- Seitenzahl: 226
- Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2016
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 20mm
- Gewicht: 373g
- ISBN-13: 9781138937239
- ISBN-10: 1138937231
- Artikelnr.: 43676923
Broderick Chow is a Lecturer in Theatre at Brunel University London, and an active performance practitioner. Eero Laine is Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. Claire Warden is a Senior Lecturer in Drama at De Montfort University.
Introduction: Hamlet Doesn't Blade: Professional Wrestling, Theatre, and
Performance
Audience
Ch1 The dissipation of "heat": changing role(s) of audience in professional
wrestling in the U.S.
Ch2 Pops and promos: speech and silence in professional wrestling
Ch3 Playful engagements: Wrestling with the attendant masses
Circulation
Ch4 Stadium Sized Theatre: WWE and the World of Professional Wrestling
Ch5 Wrestling's Not Real, It's Hyperreal: Professional Wrestling Video
Games
Lucha
Ch6 Don't Leave Us in the Hands of Criminals: The Contested Cultural
Politics of Lucha Libre
Ch7 Wrestling With Burlesque, Burlesquing Lucha Libre
Gender
Ch8 The Impact of Women's Pro Wrestling Performances on the Transformation
of Gender
Ch9 "Most women train with mostly men, so why not wrestle them?" The
performance and experience of intergender professional wrestling in Britain
Queerness
Ch10 Grappling and Ga(y)zing: Gender, Sexuality and Performance in the WWE
debuts of Goldust and Marlena
Ch11 'King of the ring, and queen of it too': the exotic masculinity of
Adrian Street
Ch12 "Gold-dust": Ricki Starr's Ironic Performances of the Queer Commodity
in Popular Entertainment
Bodies
Ch13 Muscle Memory: Re-enacting the fin-de-siècle Strongman in Pro
Wrestling
Ch14 The Hard Sell; The Performance of Pain in Professional Wrestling
Race
Ch15 "Tell Them It's What Their Grandfathers Got": Racial Violence in
Southern Professional Wrestling
Ch16 Grappling with the "New Racism:" Race, Ethnicity, and Post-Colonialism
in British Wrestling during the 1970s and 1980s
Ch17 Some Moments of Flag Desecration in Professional Wrestling
Epilogue: The Game of Life
Performance
Audience
Ch1 The dissipation of "heat": changing role(s) of audience in professional
wrestling in the U.S.
Ch2 Pops and promos: speech and silence in professional wrestling
Ch3 Playful engagements: Wrestling with the attendant masses
Circulation
Ch4 Stadium Sized Theatre: WWE and the World of Professional Wrestling
Ch5 Wrestling's Not Real, It's Hyperreal: Professional Wrestling Video
Games
Lucha
Ch6 Don't Leave Us in the Hands of Criminals: The Contested Cultural
Politics of Lucha Libre
Ch7 Wrestling With Burlesque, Burlesquing Lucha Libre
Gender
Ch8 The Impact of Women's Pro Wrestling Performances on the Transformation
of Gender
Ch9 "Most women train with mostly men, so why not wrestle them?" The
performance and experience of intergender professional wrestling in Britain
Queerness
Ch10 Grappling and Ga(y)zing: Gender, Sexuality and Performance in the WWE
debuts of Goldust and Marlena
Ch11 'King of the ring, and queen of it too': the exotic masculinity of
Adrian Street
Ch12 "Gold-dust": Ricki Starr's Ironic Performances of the Queer Commodity
in Popular Entertainment
Bodies
Ch13 Muscle Memory: Re-enacting the fin-de-siècle Strongman in Pro
Wrestling
Ch14 The Hard Sell; The Performance of Pain in Professional Wrestling
Race
Ch15 "Tell Them It's What Their Grandfathers Got": Racial Violence in
Southern Professional Wrestling
Ch16 Grappling with the "New Racism:" Race, Ethnicity, and Post-Colonialism
in British Wrestling during the 1970s and 1980s
Ch17 Some Moments of Flag Desecration in Professional Wrestling
Epilogue: The Game of Life
Introduction: Hamlet Doesn't Blade: Professional Wrestling, Theatre, and
Performance
Audience
Ch1 The dissipation of "heat": changing role(s) of audience in professional
wrestling in the U.S.
Ch2 Pops and promos: speech and silence in professional wrestling
Ch3 Playful engagements: Wrestling with the attendant masses
Circulation
Ch4 Stadium Sized Theatre: WWE and the World of Professional Wrestling
Ch5 Wrestling's Not Real, It's Hyperreal: Professional Wrestling Video
Games
Lucha
Ch6 Don't Leave Us in the Hands of Criminals: The Contested Cultural
Politics of Lucha Libre
Ch7 Wrestling With Burlesque, Burlesquing Lucha Libre
Gender
Ch8 The Impact of Women's Pro Wrestling Performances on the Transformation
of Gender
Ch9 "Most women train with mostly men, so why not wrestle them?" The
performance and experience of intergender professional wrestling in Britain
Queerness
Ch10 Grappling and Ga(y)zing: Gender, Sexuality and Performance in the WWE
debuts of Goldust and Marlena
Ch11 'King of the ring, and queen of it too': the exotic masculinity of
Adrian Street
Ch12 "Gold-dust": Ricki Starr's Ironic Performances of the Queer Commodity
in Popular Entertainment
Bodies
Ch13 Muscle Memory: Re-enacting the fin-de-siècle Strongman in Pro
Wrestling
Ch14 The Hard Sell; The Performance of Pain in Professional Wrestling
Race
Ch15 "Tell Them It's What Their Grandfathers Got": Racial Violence in
Southern Professional Wrestling
Ch16 Grappling with the "New Racism:" Race, Ethnicity, and Post-Colonialism
in British Wrestling during the 1970s and 1980s
Ch17 Some Moments of Flag Desecration in Professional Wrestling
Epilogue: The Game of Life
Performance
Audience
Ch1 The dissipation of "heat": changing role(s) of audience in professional
wrestling in the U.S.
Ch2 Pops and promos: speech and silence in professional wrestling
Ch3 Playful engagements: Wrestling with the attendant masses
Circulation
Ch4 Stadium Sized Theatre: WWE and the World of Professional Wrestling
Ch5 Wrestling's Not Real, It's Hyperreal: Professional Wrestling Video
Games
Lucha
Ch6 Don't Leave Us in the Hands of Criminals: The Contested Cultural
Politics of Lucha Libre
Ch7 Wrestling With Burlesque, Burlesquing Lucha Libre
Gender
Ch8 The Impact of Women's Pro Wrestling Performances on the Transformation
of Gender
Ch9 "Most women train with mostly men, so why not wrestle them?" The
performance and experience of intergender professional wrestling in Britain
Queerness
Ch10 Grappling and Ga(y)zing: Gender, Sexuality and Performance in the WWE
debuts of Goldust and Marlena
Ch11 'King of the ring, and queen of it too': the exotic masculinity of
Adrian Street
Ch12 "Gold-dust": Ricki Starr's Ironic Performances of the Queer Commodity
in Popular Entertainment
Bodies
Ch13 Muscle Memory: Re-enacting the fin-de-siècle Strongman in Pro
Wrestling
Ch14 The Hard Sell; The Performance of Pain in Professional Wrestling
Race
Ch15 "Tell Them It's What Their Grandfathers Got": Racial Violence in
Southern Professional Wrestling
Ch16 Grappling with the "New Racism:" Race, Ethnicity, and Post-Colonialism
in British Wrestling during the 1970s and 1980s
Ch17 Some Moments of Flag Desecration in Professional Wrestling
Epilogue: The Game of Life