Performance and Professional Wrestling
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Performance and Professional Wrestling

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Performance and Professional Wrestling

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About This Book

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.

Topics such as the suspension of disbelief, simulation, silence and speech, physical culture, and the performance of pain within the squared circle are explored in relation to professional wrestling, with work by both scholars and practitioners grouped into seven short sections:

  • Audience
  • Circulation
  • Lucha
  • Gender
  • Queerness
  • Bodies
  • Race

A significant re-reading of wrestling as a performing art, Performance and Professional Wrestling makes essential reading for scholars and students intrigued by this uniquely theatrical sport.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2016
ISBN
9781317385066
Edition
1
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Performing Arts

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Figures
  6. Contributors
  7. Introduction: Hamlet doesn’t blade: Professional wrestling, theatre, and performance
  8. Part I Audience
  9. Part II Circulation
  10. Part III Lucha
  11. Part IV Gender
  12. Part V Queerness
  13. Part VI Bodies
  14. Part VII Race
  15. Epilogue: The game of life
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index