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Performance and Professional Wrestling
Broderick Chow
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Description for Performance and Professional Wrestling
Paperback. Editor(s): Chow, Broderick; Laine, Eero; Warden, Claire. Num Pages: 236 pages, 35 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: ASZ; WSTC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 276 x 20. Weight in Grams: 374.
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: ... Read more
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: ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
226
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781138937239
SKU
V9781138937239
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Ref
99-1
About Broderick Chow
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.
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