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Title: Professional Wrestling Condition: New Subtitle: Politics and Populism Author: Eero Laine Contributor: Heather Levi (Edited by), Eero Laine (Edited by), Sharon Mazer (Edited by), Nell Haynes (Edited by) Format: Paperback ISBN-10: 0857427946 EAN: 9780857427946 ISBN: 9780857427946 Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd Genre: Music Dance & Theatre Topic: Society & Culture, Gender Sex & Relationships, Social Sciences, Sports & Hobbies Release Date: 11/15/2020 Description: A wildly popular form of mass media and live entertainment, professional wrestling makes a spectacle of violent acts. With its long history of working contemporary events into storylines and commenting upon cultural and military conflicts, professional wrestling is also intrinsically political. Its performance—theatricalities, machinations and conditions of production, figurations, and audiences—arises from and engages with the world around. Whether flowing with the mainstream of popular culture or fighting at the fringes, professional wrestling shows us how we are fighting, what we are fighting about, and what we are fighting for.
This edited volume asks how professional wrestling is implicated in the current resurgence of populist politics, whether right-wing and Trump–inflected, or leftist and socialist. How might it do more than reflect and, in so doing, reaffirm the status quo? While provoked by the disruptive performances of Trump as candidate and president, and mindful of his longstanding ties to the WWE, this timely volume looks more broadly and internationally at the infusion of professional wrestling’s worldview into the twinned discourses of politics and populism. The contributors are scholars from a wide range of disciplines: theater and performance studies; cultural, media, and communication studies; anthropology and sociology; and gender and sexuality studies. Together they argue that the game’s popularity and its populist tendencies open it to the left as well as to the right, to contestation as well as to conformity, making it an ideal site for working on feminist and activist projects and ideas.
Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: GB Item Height: 229mm Item Length: 152mm Item Width: 20mm Item Weight: 313g Book Series: Enactments Release Year: 2020 Missing Information?
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