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1 online resource (236 pages) |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Contributors; Introduction: Hamlet doesn't blade: Professional wrestling, theatre, and performance; Part I Audience; 1 The dissipation of "heat": Changing role(s) of audience in professional wrestling in the United States; 2 Pops and promos: Speech and silence in professional wrestling; 3 Playful engagements: Wrestling with the attendant masses; Part II Circulation; 4 Stadium-sized theatre: WWE and the world of professional wrestling; 5 Wrestling's not real, it's hyperreal: Professional wrestling video games; Part III Lucha |
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6 Don't leave us in the hands of criminals: The contested cultural politics of lucha libre7 Wrestling with burlesque, burlesquing lucha libre; Part IV Gender; 8 The impact of women's pro wrestling performances on the transformation of gender; 9 "Most women train with mostly men, so why not wrestle them?" The performance and experience of intergender professional wrestling in Britain; Part V Queerness; 10 Grappling and ga(y)zing: Gender, sexuality, and performance in the WWE debuts of Goldust and Marlena; 11 "King of the ring, and queen of it too": The exotic masculinity of Adrian Street |
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12 "Gold-dust": Ricki Starr's ironic performances of the queer commodity in popular entertainmentPart VI Bodies; 13 Muscle memory: Re-enacting the fin-de-siècle strongman in pro wrestling; 14 The hard sell: The performance of pain in professional wrestling; Part VII Race; 15 "Tell them it's what their grandfathers got": Racial violence in southern professional wrestling; 16 Grappling with the "new racism": Race, ethnicity, and post-colonialism in British wrestling during the 1970s and 1980s; 17 Some moments of flag desecration in professional wrestling; Epilogue: The game of life |
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BibliographyIndex |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Wrestling.
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Wrestling
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Laine, Eero
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Warden, Claire
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| ISBN |
9781317385073 |
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1317385071 |
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