Research Catalog

Title

Performance and professional wrestling / edited by Broderick Chow, Eero Laine, and Claire Warden.

Publication

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2017.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Chow, Broderick
• Laine, Eero
• Claire, Warden, 1980-

Description

x, 225 pages; 24 cm

Subjects

• Wrestling
• Wrestling > Social aspects
• Performance art

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction : Hamlet doesn't blade: professional wrestling, theatre, and performance / Broderick Chow, Eero Laine, and Claire Warden -- Part I. Audience : The dissipation of "heat": changing role(s) of audience in professional wrestling in the United States / Jon Ezell -- Pops and promos: speech and silence in professional wrestling / Claire Warden -- Playful engagements: wrestling with the attendant masses / Stephen Di Benedetto -- Part II. Circulation : Stadium-sized theatre: WWE and the world of professional wrestling / Eero Laine -- Wrestling's not real, it's hyperreal: professional wrestling video games / Nicholas Ware -- Part III. 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 -- Part IV. 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 -- Part V. 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 -- Part VI. Bodies : Muscle memory: re-enacting the fin-de-siècle strongman in pro wrestling / Broderick Chow -- The hard sell: the performance of pain in professional wrestling / Jamie Lewis Hadley -- Part VII. 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.

ISBN

• 9781138937222
• 1138937223
• 9781138937239
• 1138937231
• 9781315676401 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2016002736

OCLC

• 959938702
• 950202280
• SCSB-11518176

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library