Performance and Professional WrestlingBroderick Chow, Eero Laine, Claire Warden Taylor & Francis, 12 באוג׳ 2016 - 236 עמודים 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. Topics such as the suspension of disbelief, simulation, silence and speech, physical culture, and the performance of pain within the squared circle are explored in relation to professional wrestling, with work by both scholars and practitioners grouped into seven short sections:
A significant re-reading of wrestling as a performing art, Performance and Professional Wrestling makes essential reading for scholars and students intrigued by this uniquely theatrical sport. |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 49
... bodies, and race. The experience of the audience in professional wrestling may ... male-to-female wrestlers on a typical card. Keiko Aiba's and Carrie Dunn's ... body guy” through wrestler George Hackenschmidt, and Hadley interrogates ...
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תוכן
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Part II Circulation | 37 |
Part III Lucha | 57 |
Part IV Gender | 83 |
Part V Queerness | 105 |
Part VI Bodies | 141 |
Part VII Race | 163 |
The game of life | 196 |
Bibliography | 207 |
Index | 223 |