Boxing and Performance - Memetic Hauntings

Boxing and Performance is the first substantial piece of work to place the lived experience of female and male boxers in dialogue with one another.
Crews and Lennox critically reflect on their ethnographic experiences of boxing and their reading of the cultural representations of the sport. They conceive of the project as an extended sparring session. This book offers a unique perspective on boxing in/as performance and boxing in/as culture. It explores how the connections between boxing and performance address ideas about bodies, relationships, intimacy, and combat. It challenges and renegotiates oft-repeated narratives used to make meaning about boxing.
This volume examines questions of visibility, voice, and agency and will appeal to scholars and students in the fields of performance and media, and sport and social studies.

List of contents

Introduction  1. Narrative remains  2. Bodily traces  3. (Re)performing greatness  Conclusion

About the author

Sarah Crews is Senior Lecturer in Performance and Media at the University of South Wales. Sarah's research interests include performance and the body, gender and sexuality, and boxing and physical culture.
P. Solomon Lennox is Head of Department of Arts at Northumbria University. His research sits within the field of performance studies and explores the relationship between the physical performance practices of combat sports, theories of performance space, and narrative identity.

Summary

Boxing and Performance is the first substantial piece of work to place the lived experience of female and male boxers in dialogue with one another.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Crews, Sarah (University of South Wales Crews, P. Solomon Lennox
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9780367633615
• ISBN: 978-0-367-63361-5
• No. of pages: 146
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; SPORTS & RECREATION / General, CRAFTS & HOBBIES / General, HEALTH & FITNESS / Sexuality, PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / General, SELF-HELP / Sexual Instruction, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, HOUSE & HOME / General, ART / Performance, Theatre Studies, Sports & outdoor recreation, Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints, Sex & sexuality, sex manuals, Psychological theory & schools of thought, Performance Art, Sex and sexuality: advice and issues, Sports and Active outdoor recreation, Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure