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. |
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... spectacle of excess” in his 1957 Mythologies, theatre and performance have often been employed in studies of wrestling largely as a way to mark the form as somehow other than sport, but only rarely as a particular performance form. Both ...
... spectacle (costumes, pyrotechnics, acrobatics, and unusually shaped bodies – to be emulated, admired, or mocked) that are overlaid with an over-the-top theatricality that animates and drives the narrative forward. Professional wrestling ...
... spectacle. Unlike martial arts that strive for efficiency of move- ment, professional wrestling embraces the overtly theatrical – telling stories through outsized physical gestures that upon review only resemble some 4 Broderick Chow et al.
... spectacle. Duncan and Brummett argued that television imposed its own logic upon spectator sports, adding narrative structures and focusing on intimate details of individuals involved. Rather than framing a football game as team ...
Broderick Chow, Eero Laine, Claire Warden. and spectacle, and the presence of the live audience as an authenticating backdrop and sometime participant. Examining the impact of televisual media on live performance, Auslander made several ...
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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 |