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Professional wrestling : sport and spectacle / Sharon Mazer.

By:

Mazer, Sharon [aut]

Language: English Publisher: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2020Edition: Second editionDescription: xviii, 178 sidor illustrationerContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781496826596

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

796.812 23/swe

Other classification:

Summary: "Sharon Mazer looks at the world of professional wrestling from a fan’s-eye-view high in the stands and from ringside in the wrestlers’ gym. She investigates how performances are constructed and sold to spectators, both on a local level and in the “big leagues” of the WWF/E. She shares a close-up view of a group of wrestlers as they work out, get their faces pushed to the mat as part of their initiation into the fraternity of the ring, and dream of stardom. In later chapters, Mazer explores professional wrestling’s carnivalesque presentation of masculinities ranging from the cute to the brute, as well as the way in which the performances of women wrestlers often enter into the realm of pornographic. Finally, she explores the question of the “real” and the “fake” as the fans themselves confront it." -- Utgivarens hemsida

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Materials specified	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book	Musik- och teaterbiblioteket Magasin A	C16.962		Checked out	2024-01-08	26201866057

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"Sharon Mazer looks at the world of professional wrestling from a fan’s-eye-view high in the stands and from ringside in the wrestlers’ gym. She investigates how performances are constructed and sold to spectators, both on a local level and in the “big leagues” of the WWF/E. She shares a close-up view of a group of wrestlers as they work out, get their faces pushed to the mat as part of their initiation into the fraternity of the ring, and dream of stardom. In later chapters, Mazer explores professional wrestling’s carnivalesque presentation of masculinities ranging from the cute to the brute, as well as the way in which the performances of women wrestlers often enter into the realm of pornographic. Finally, she explores the question of the “real” and the “fake” as the fans themselves confront it." -- Utgivarens hemsida