Performance and Professional Wrestling is the first edited volume to consider professional wrestling explicitly from the vantage point of theatre and performance studies. Moving beyond simply noting its performative qualities or reading it via other performance genres, this collection of essays offers a complete critical reassessment of the popular sport
This paper examines the complex position of language in professional wrestling, a medium dominated b...
In his article Wrestling and Popular Culture Dalbir S. Sehmby investigates a phenomenon of televis...
In the past decade, American professional wrestling has moved from the fringes of mainstream enterta...
This dissertation pursues questions of how theatre and performance relate to and interact with conte...
While typically used to analyze oral poetry and oral poetic traditions, composition in performance t...
From John Fiske to Mikhail Bakhtin there is a strong tradition of reading professional wrestling thr...
Praca stanowi analizę zjawiska amerykańskiego profesjonalnego wrestlingu w świetle teorii performaty...
This thesis explores professional wrestling as a cultural medium, a form of theater/soap opera that ...
In this paper I offer up one such genre for analysis --professional wrestling--and show that interpr...
This paper examines the complex position of language in professional wrestling, a medium dominated b...
In 2016 Benjamin Litherland, Tom Phillips, and Claire Warden began a research collaboration centered...
Using two major examples (2002 Wrestlemania XVII main event between The Rock and Hulk Hogan, and the...
Within the world of professional wrestling, the blurred boundaries of the live event and physical na...
This article examines how professional wrestlers, promoters and audiences perform the passion work o...
This article describes and conceptualises a period of auto-ethnographic research in which the author...
This paper examines the complex position of language in professional wrestling, a medium dominated b...
In his article Wrestling and Popular Culture Dalbir S. Sehmby investigates a phenomenon of televis...
In the past decade, American professional wrestling has moved from the fringes of mainstream enterta...
This dissertation pursues questions of how theatre and performance relate to and interact with conte...
While typically used to analyze oral poetry and oral poetic traditions, composition in performance t...
From John Fiske to Mikhail Bakhtin there is a strong tradition of reading professional wrestling thr...
Praca stanowi analizę zjawiska amerykańskiego profesjonalnego wrestlingu w świetle teorii performaty...
This thesis explores professional wrestling as a cultural medium, a form of theater/soap opera that ...
In this paper I offer up one such genre for analysis --professional wrestling--and show that interpr...
This paper examines the complex position of language in professional wrestling, a medium dominated b...
In 2016 Benjamin Litherland, Tom Phillips, and Claire Warden began a research collaboration centered...
Using two major examples (2002 Wrestlemania XVII main event between The Rock and Hulk Hogan, and the...
Within the world of professional wrestling, the blurred boundaries of the live event and physical na...
This article examines how professional wrestlers, promoters and audiences perform the passion work o...
This article describes and conceptualises a period of auto-ethnographic research in which the author...
This paper examines the complex position of language in professional wrestling, a medium dominated b...
In his article Wrestling and Popular Culture Dalbir S. Sehmby investigates a phenomenon of televis...
In the past decade, American professional wrestling has moved from the fringes of mainstream enterta...