Professional Wrestling The Theatre Of The Absurd
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Professional Wrestling The Theatre Of The Absurd
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Author : Steve Hall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-06-08
Professional Wrestling The Theatre Of The Absurd written by Steve Hall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-08 with categories.
Are you a fan of old school professional wrestling? Want to know more life in the territories? Then this is the perfect book for you! Professional Wrestling - The Theatre of the Absurd is a superb collection of stories showing a glimpse into the AWA, WWF, Mid-South and Central States Wrestling, If you want to know what it was really like to be a wrestler. Tom "Rocky" Stone, aka Steve Hall has been a member of the wrestling world for decades. He will show you how he began his professional wrestling journey, his career, and his memories from driving the highways of America and so much more... From different wrestlers he's faced to incredible personal anecdotes, this book will give you the ultimate insight into Stone's life and the lives around him. With this book, he hopes to share his experiences inside and outside of the squared circle in what was a circus atmosphere during the 1970s, 80s and 90s.
Professional Wrestling And The Commercial Stage
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Author : Eero Laine
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-11-14
Professional Wrestling And The Commercial Stage written by Eero Laine and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-14 with Performing Arts categories.
Professional Wrestling and the Commercial Stage examines professional wrestling as a century-old, theatrical form that spans from its local places of performance to circulate as a popular, global product. Professional wrestling has all the trappings of sport, but is, at its core, a theatrical event. This book acknowledges that professional wrestling shares many theatrical elements such as plot, character, scenic design, props, and spectacle. By assessing professional wrestling as a neglected but prototypical case study in the global business of theatre, Laine argues that it is an exemplary form of globalizing, commercial theatre. He asks what theatre scholars might learn from pro wrestling and how pro wrestling might contribute to conversations beyond the ring, by considering the laboring bodies of the wrestlers, and analyzing wrestling’s form and content. Of interest to scholars and students of theatre and performance, cultural studies, and sports studies, Professional Wrestling and the Commercial Stage delimits the edges of wrestling’s theatrical frame, critiques established understandings of corporate theatre, and offers key wrestling concepts as models for future study in other fields.
Performance And Professional Wrestling
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Author : Broderick Chow
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2016-08-12
Performance And Professional Wrestling written by Broderick Chow and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-12 with Performing Arts categories.
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.
Professional Wrestling
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Author : Sharon Mazer
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2020-01-27
Professional Wrestling written by Sharon Mazer and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-27 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Professional wrestling is one of the most popular performance practices in the United States and around the world, drawing millions of spectators to live events and televised broadcasts. The displays of violence, simulated and actual, may be the obvious appeal, but that is just the beginning. Fans debate performance choices with as much energy as they argue about their favorite wrestlers. The ongoing scenarios and presentations of manly and not-so-manly characters—from the flamboyantly feminine to the hypermasculine—simultaneously celebrate and critique, parody and affirm the American dream and the masculine ideal. Sharon Mazer looks at the world of professional wrestling from a fan’s-eye-view high in the stands and from ringside in the wrestlers’ gym. She investigates how performances are constructed and sold to spectators, both on a local level and in the “big leagues” of the WWF/E. She shares a close-up view of a group of wrestlers as they work out, get their faces pushed to the mat as part of their initiation into the fraternity of the ring, and dream of stardom. In later chapters, Mazer explores professional wrestling’s carnivalesque presentation of masculinities ranging from the cute to the brute, as well as the way in which the performances of women wrestlers often enter into the realm of pornographic. Finally, she explores the question of the “real” and the “fake” as the fans themselves confront it. First published in 1998, this new edition of Professional Wrestling: Sport and Spectacle both preserves the original’s snapshot of the wrestling scene of the 1980s and 1990s and features an up-to-date perspective on the current state of play.
The Squared Circle
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Author : David Shoemaker
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2014-11-04
The Squared Circle written by David Shoemaker and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-04 with Sports & Recreation categories.
A breakthrough examination of the professional wrestling, its history, its fans, and its wider cultural impact The Squared Circle grows out of David Shoemaker’s writing for Deadspin, where he started the column “Dead Wrestler of the Week” (which boasts more than 1 million page views)—a feature on the many wrestling superstars who died too young because of the abuse they subject their bodies to—and his writing for Grantland, where he covers the pro wrestling world, and its place in the pop culture mainstream. Shoemaker’s sportswriting has since struck a nerve with generations of wrestling fans who—like him—grew up worshipping a sport often derided as “fake” in the wider culture. To them, these professional wrestling superstars are not just heroes but an emotional outlet and the lens through which they learned to see the world. Starting in the early 1900s and exploring the path of pro wrestling in America through the present day, The Squared Circle is the first book to acknowledge both the sport’s broader significance and wrestling fans’ keen intellect and sense of irony. Divided into eras, each section offers a snapshot of the wrestling world, profiles some of the period’s preeminent wrestlers, and the sport’s influence on our broader culture. Through the brawling, bombast, and bloodletting, Shoemaker argues that pro wrestling can teach us about the nature of performance, audience, and, yes, art. Full of unknown history, humor, and self-deprecating reminiscence—but also offering a compelling look at the sport’s rightful place in pop culture—The Squared Circle is the book that legions of wrestling fans have been waiting for. In it, Shoemaker teaches us to look past the spandex and body slams to see an art form that can explain the world.
Play Performance And Professional Wrestling
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Author : Terry McNeill Saunders
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Play Performance And Professional Wrestling written by Terry McNeill Saunders and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Popular culture categories.
Legends Of Pro Wrestling
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Author : Tim Hornbaker
language : en
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Release Date : 2012-07
Legends Of Pro Wrestling written by Tim Hornbaker and has been published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Details the lives and careers of the best professional wrestling figures of the last one hundred fifty years, including Bruno Sammartino, The Undertaker, and John Cena.
Professional Wrestling And As Theatre
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Author : Eero Laine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Professional Wrestling And As Theatre written by Eero Laine and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with categories.
Theater In A Squared Circle
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Author : Jeff Archer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Theater In A Squared Circle written by Jeff Archer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Tries to explain the attraction of professional wrestling, offers profiles of notable wrestlers, and describes modern wrestling fans.
I M Sorry I Love You A History Of Professional Wrestling
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Author : Jim Smallman
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2018-08-23
I M Sorry I Love You A History Of Professional Wrestling written by Jim Smallman and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-23 with Sports & Recreation categories.
'Clever, funny, authoritative and illuminating' - Times Literary Supplement 'Filled with passion, humour, and a little bit of welcome weirdness. A must-read for every die-hard wrestling fan' - Mick Foley For fans of books from Chris Jericho, Steve Austin, Daniel Bryan, Mick Foley and Jim Ross. 'We have all felt every emotion today. Remember today, the next time a family member or workmate tells you that wrestling is stupid. We've laughed, we've cried, we've screamed our lungs out. Professional wrestling is the greatest thing in the entire world.' - Jim Smallman, 2016 Comedian and PROGRESS Wrestling founder Jim Smallman takes us on a wild ride through the history of pro-wrestling, from its beginnings at the turn of the twentieth century to the pop-culture, pay-per-view juggernaut that it is today. Join Jim as he looks at the most defining and iconic moments in wrestling's history and attempts to nail down just why this ludicrous, over the top, compelling quasi-sport means so much to so many people.