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Body Drop - Notes on Fandom and Pain in Professional Wrestling (Paperback)
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Body Drop - Notes on Fandom and Pain in Professional Wrestling (Paperback)
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List price R519
Loot Price R433
Discovery Miles 4 330
You Save R86 (17%)
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Professional wrestling is a strange beast, full of
contradictions-it's part live soap opera, part hyper-masculine
violent spectacle. It's an indelibly American pastime enjoyed by
millions and leads a select group of wrestlers to international
fame. It's also a sport that leaves many of its athletes broken and
battered, at serious risk of addiction, poverty, and early death.
Body Drop looks deeply at the nuances of professional wrestling and
its strange place within American culture from the perspective of
fandom. Brian Oliu offers deeply personal meditations on such
topics as disability, chronic pain, body image, masculinity, class,
and more, all through the lens of American professional wrestling.
Wrestling is a sport that is gleefully fake, but the people who
love it are very real. In holding up this particular part of
American culture to scrutiny, Oliu acknowledges that wrestling,
like our world, is one that has been crafted, but by showing
readers the scaffolding that holds everything up, he invites us to
figure out what holds our own realities upright.
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