Performance and professional wrestling / edited by Broderick Chow, Eero Laine, and Claire Warden.
Språk: Engelska Utgivning: Abingdon, Oxon : : Routledge, 2017Beskrivning: x, 225 s. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781138937222
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| Item type | Current library | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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| Book | Musik- och teaterbiblioteket Magasin A | B30.999 | Available | 26201841818 |
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Introduction: Hamlet Doesn’t Blade: Professional Wrestling, Theatre, and Performance / Broderick Chow, Eero Laine, Claire Warden -- 1. Audience. The dissipation of "heat": changing role(s) of audience in professional wrestling in the U.S. / Jon Ezell -- Pops and promos: speech and silence in professional wrestling / Claire Warden -- Playful engagements: Wrestling with the attendant masses / Stephen Di Benedetto -- 2. Circulation. Stadium Sized Theatre: WWE and the World of Professional Wrestling / Eero Laine -- Wrestling’s Not Real, It’s Hyperreal: Professional Wrestling Video Games / Nick Ware -- 3. Lucha. Don't Leave Us in the Hands of Criminals: The Contested Cultural Politics of Lucha Libre / Heather Levi -- Wrestling With Burlesque, Burlesquing Lucha Libre / Nina Hoechtl -- 4. Gender. The Impact of Women’s Pro Wrestling Performances on the Transformation of Gender / Keiko Aiba (Translated by Minata Hara) -- "Most women train with mostly men, so why not wrestle them?" The performance and experience of intergender professional wrestling in Britain / Carrie Dunn -- 5. Queerness. Grappling and Ga(y)zing: Gender, Sexuality and Performance in the WWE debuts of Goldust and Marlena / Janine Bradbury -- ‘King of the ring, and queen of it too’: the exotic masculinity of Adrian Street / Stephen Greer -- "Gold-dust": Ricki Starr’s Ironic Performances of the Queer Commodity in Popular Entertainment / Laura Katz Rizzo -- 6. Bodies. Muscle Memory: Re-enacting the fin-de-siècle Strongman in Pro Wrestling / Broderick D.V. Chow -- The Hard Sell; The Performance of Pain in Professional Wrestling / Jamie Lewis Hadley -- 7. Race. "Tell Them It’s What Their Grandfathers Got": Racial Violence in Southern Professional Wrestling / Charles Hughes -- Grappling with the "New Racism:" Race, Ethnicity, and Post-Colonialism in British Wrestling during the 1970s and 1980s / Nicholas Porter -- Some Moments of Flag Desecration in Professional Wrestling / Morgan Daniels -- Epilogue. The Game of Life / Sharon Mazer.