Professional Wrestling and the Commercial Stage

ISBN-13: 9781032083865 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 156 str.

Eero Laine

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements  Introduction: Professional Wrestling and the Commercial Stage  1. Productive Theatre and Professional Wrestling: The Business of Kayfabe  2. Form and Content: Professional Wrestling’s Troubling Theatrics  3. Hardcore Wrestling: Deregulation and Theatrical Danger  4. Trading Likenesses: Wrestling Labor and the Branded Body  5. A Stock Theatre Company: WWE and Theatrical Value  Conclusion: Wrestling Futures  Index

O autorze

Eero Laine is Assistant Professor of Theatre at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. He is the co-editor of Performance and Professional Wrestling (2017).