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Professional Wrestling and the Commercial Stage (Paperback)
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Professional Wrestling and the Commercial Stage (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
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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.
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