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Sports Plays is a volume about sports in the theatre and what it
means to stage sports. The chapters in this volume examine sports
plays through a range of critical and theoretical approaches that
highlight central concerns and questions both for sports and for
theatre. The plays cut across boundaries and genres, from
Broadway-style musicals to dramas to experimental and developmental
work. The chapters examine and trouble the conventions of staging
sports as they open possibilities for considering larger social and
cultural issues and debates. This broad range of perspectives make
the volume a compelling resource for students and scholars of
sport, theatre, and performance studies whose interests span
feminism, sexuality, politics, and race.
Sports Plays is a volume about sports in the theatre and what it
means to stage sports. The chapters in this volume examine sports
plays through a range of critical and theoretical approaches that
highlight central concerns and questions both for sports and for
theatre. The plays cut across boundaries and genres, from
Broadway-style musicals to dramas to experimental and developmental
work. The chapters examine and trouble the conventions of staging
sports as they open possibilities for considering larger social and
cultural issues and debates. This broad range of perspectives make
the volume a compelling resource for students and scholars of
sport, theatre, and performance studies whose interests span
feminism, sexuality, politics, and race.
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.
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:
Audience Circulation Lucha Gender Queerness Bodies Race A
significant re-reading of wrestling as a performing art,
Performance and Professional Wrestling makes essential reading for
scholars and students intrigued by this uniquely theatrical sport.
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:
Audience Circulation Lucha Gender Queerness Bodies Race A
significant re-reading of wrestling as a performing art,
Performance and Professional Wrestling makes essential reading for
scholars and students intrigued by this uniquely theatrical sport.
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.
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.
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