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Informationen zum Autor Broderick Chow is a Lecturer in Theatre at Brunel University London, and an active performance practitioner. Eero Laine is Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. Claire Warden is a Senior Lecturer in Drama at De Montfort University. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Hamlet Doesn't Blade: Professional Wrestling, Theatre, and Performance Audience Ch1 The dissipation of "heat": changing role(s) of audience in professional wrestling in the U.S. Ch2 Pops and promos: speech and silence in professional wrestling Ch3 Playful engagements: Wrestling with the attendant masses Circulation Ch4 Stadium Sized Theatre: WWE and the World of Professional Wrestling Ch5 Wrestling's Not Real, It's Hyperreal: Professional Wrestling Video Games Lucha Ch6 Don't Leave Us in the Hands of Criminals: The Contested Cultural Politics of Lucha Libre Ch7 Wrestling With Burlesque, Burlesquing Lucha Libre Gender Ch8 The Impact of Women's Pro Wrestling Performances on the Transformation of Gender Ch9 "Most women train with mostly men, so why not wrestle them?" The performance and experience of intergender professional wrestling in Britain Queerness Ch10 Grappling and Ga(y)zing: Gender, Sexuality and Performance in the WWE debuts of Goldust and Marlena Ch11 'King of the ring, and queen of it too': the exotic masculinity of Adrian Street Ch12 "Gold-dust": Ricki Starr's Ironic Performances of the Queer Commodity in Popular Entertainment Bodies Ch13 Muscle Memory: Re-enacting the fin-de-siècle Strongman in Pro Wrestling Ch14 The Hard Sell; The Performance of Pain in Professional Wrestling Race Ch15 "Tell Them It's What Their Grandfathers Got": Racial Violence in Southern Professional Wrestling Ch16 Grappling with the "New Racism:" Race, Ethnicity, and Post-Colonialism in British Wrestling during the 1970s and 1980s Ch17 Some Moments of Flag Desecration in Professional Wrestling Epilogue: The Game of Life ...
