Professional wrestling : sport and spectacle / Sharon Mazer.

Av: Språk: Engelska Utgivning: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2020Utgåva: Second editionBeskrivning: xviii, 178 sidor illustrationerInnehållstyp:
  • text
Medietyp:
  • unmediated
Bärartyp:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781496826596
Ämne: DDK-klassifikation:
  • 796.812 23/swe
SAB-klassifikation:
  • Rbj
Sammanfattning: "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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"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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