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At the intersection of sport, entertainment and performance,
wrestling occupies a unique position in British popular culture.
This is the first book to offer a detailed historical and cultural
analysis of British professional wrestling, exploring the shifting
popularity of the sport as well as its wider social significance.
Arguing that the history of professional wrestling can help us
understand key themes in sport, culture and performance that span
the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, it addresses topics such
as: attitudes towards violence, representations of masculinity, the
media and celebrity culture, consumerism and globalisation. By
drawing on a variety of intellectual traditions and disciplines,
the book explores the role of power in the development of popular
cultural forms, the ways in which history structures the present,
and the manner in which audiences construct identity and meaning
through sport. Wrestling in Britain: Sporting Entertainments,
Celebrity and Audiences is fascinating reading for all students and
researchers with an interest in media and cultural studies,
histories and sociologies of sport, or performance studies.
This book aims to further a debate about aspects of "playing" and
"gaming" in connection with history. Reaching out to academics,
professionals and students alike, it pursues a dedicated
interdisciplinary approach. Rather than only focusing on how
professionals could learn from academics in history, the book also
ponders the question of what academics can learn from gaming and
playing for their own practice, such as gamification for teaching,
or using "play" as a paradigm for novel approaches into historical
scholarship. "Playing" and "gaming" are thus understood as a broad
cultural phenomenon that cross-pollinates the theory and practice
of history and gaming alike.
This innovative and timely volume of essays critically interrogates
the shared histories between sport and a variety of leisure,
entertainment and cultural pursuits. Sport's Relationship with
Other Leisure Industries: Historical perspectives spans the bowling
greens of early modern England to the postmodern exhibition halls
of contemporary Las Vegas, and considers examples from Europe,
North America and India. Utilizing a range of historical methods
and sources, they describe how sport has interacted with a broad
range of leisure forms, including tourism, shopping, theatre,
circus, carnival and film. The collection takes into account the
economic, cultural, geographic and political interactions sport has
forged and poses a series of questions: about how sport has been
forged in contemporary consumer capitalism; about the manner in
which it has been shaped by space and place; and the ways in which
entrepreneurs, sportspeople and artists have represented sporting
competition. The collection will help both students and scholars
conceptualise sporting networks, and will be of interest to those
working in multiple fields. This book was previously published as a
special issue of Sport in History.
This innovative and timely volume of essays critically interrogates
the shared histories between sport and a variety of leisure,
entertainment and cultural pursuits. Sport's Relationship with
Other Leisure Industries: Historical perspectives spans the bowling
greens of early modern England to the postmodern exhibition halls
of contemporary Las Vegas, and considers examples from Europe,
North America and India. Utilizing a range of historical methods
and sources, they describe how sport has interacted with a broad
range of leisure forms, including tourism, shopping, theatre,
circus, carnival and film. The collection takes into account the
economic, cultural, geographic and political interactions sport has
forged and poses a series of questions: about how sport has been
forged in contemporary consumer capitalism; about the manner in
which it has been shaped by space and place; and the ways in which
entrepreneurs, sportspeople and artists have represented sporting
competition. The collection will help both students and scholars
conceptualise sporting networks, and will be of interest to those
working in multiple fields. This book was previously published as a
special issue of Sport in History.
At the intersection of sport, entertainment and performance,
wrestling occupies a unique position in British popular culture.
This is the first book to offer a detailed historical and cultural
analysis of British professional wrestling, exploring the shifting
popularity of the sport as well as its wider social significance.
Arguing that the history of professional wrestling can help us
understand key themes in sport, culture and performance that span
the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, it addresses topics such
as: attitudes towards violence, representations of masculinity, the
media and celebrity culture, consumerism and globalisation. By
drawing on a variety of intellectual traditions and disciplines,
the book explores the role of power in the development of popular
cultural forms, the ways in which history structures the present,
and the manner in which audiences construct identity and meaning
through sport. Wrestling in Britain: Sporting Entertainments,
Celebrity and Audiences is fascinating reading for all students and
researchers with an interest in media and cultural studies,
histories and sociologies of sport, or performance studies.
This book aims to further a debate about aspects of "playing" and
"gaming" in connection with history. Reaching out to academics,
professionals and students alike, it pursues a dedicated
interdisciplinary approach. Rather than only focusing on how
professionals could learn from academics in history, the book also
ponders the question of what academics can learn from gaming and
playing for their own practice, such as gamification for teaching,
or using "play" as a paradigm for novel approaches into historical
scholarship. "Playing" and "gaming" are thus understood as a broad
cultural phenomenon that cross-pollinates the theory and practice
of history and gaming alike.
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