Convergent Wrestling (eBook, ePUB)

Participatory Culture, Transmedia Storytelling, and Intertextuality in the Squared Circle
Redaktion: Reinhard, Carrielynn; Olson, Christopher

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the ways in which professional wrestling has been affected by the current era of 'convergence', combining a range of genres, character types, business practices and narratives, all in one spectacle.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351233965
• Artikelnr.: 56840195

Autorenporträt

CarrieLynn D. Reinhard is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences at Dominican University, USA. She is the author of Fractured Fandoms: Contentious Communication in Fan Communities, the co-author of Possessed Women, Haunted States: Cultural Tensions in Exorcism Cinema, and the co-editor of Making Sense of Cinema: Empirical Studies into Film Spectators and Spectatorship and Heroes, Heroines, and Everything in Between: Challenging Gender and Sexuality Stereotypes in Children's Entertainment Media. Christopher John Olson is a Ph.D. student in the English Department at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, USA, where he studies media, cinema, and digital studies. He is the author of 100 Greatest Cult Movies, co-author of Possessed Women, Haunted States: Cultural Tensions in Exorcism Cinema, and the co-editor of Making Sense of Cinema: Empirical Studies into Film Spectators and Spectatorship and Heroes, Heroines, and Everything in Between: Challenging Gender and Sexuality Stereotypes in Children's Entertainment Media.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Defining Convergent Wrestling (CarrieLynn D. Reinhard and
Christopher J. Olson)
2. Wrestlers, Fans, and Power Dynamics at Live Events (Annette Hill)
3. Kayfabe as Convergence: Content Interactivity and Prosumption in the
Squared Circle (CarrieLynn D. Reinhard)
4. Wrestling with Characters: Viewer Engagement in Contemporary Television
Wrestling (Oliver Kroener)
5. Sports Entertainment: Toward a High Concept of Professional Wrestling (
John Quinn)
6. WWE's Corporate Documentary: Convergence, Collective Memory, and the
Case Against Warrior (Christopher A. Medjesky)
7. Who Is the "Baddest Bitch in the Building?": Genre Convergence and the
Inversion of Gender Roles in Lucha Underground (Christopher J. Olson and
Rogelia Lily Ibarra)
8. Allusion and the Reality of Power: Professional Wrestling and
Technology's Role in the Re-creation of the Referee (Shirley Oakley)
9."Ultimate! Atomic! Buster!" Street Fighter, Professional Wrestling, and
Visual Semiotics (Justin Wigard and Ted Troxell)
10. Pile-Driving the Fourth Wall: Audience as Participant in CHIKARA
Professional Wrestling (Matthew Wysocki and Joshua Call)
11. The Pro-Wrestling audience as Imagined Community: Reflecting on the WWE
Universe as a "Fan-Generated Narrative" Body (Joyce Goggin and Argyrios
Emmanouloudis)
12. "What's Best for Business": The WWE Cruiserweight Classic and Managing
Renegade Audiences Through Affective Economics (Robert Watts)
13. Wrestling Fandom and Digital Convergence: The Kitsch Class
Consciousness of Sirius XM's Busted Open Radio (Garret L. Castleberry)
14. "I've Been in the Danger Zone!": Botchamania as a Site of Cultural
Convergence for the Modern Internet-Savvy Wrestling Fan (Mario A. Dozal and
Gabriela I. Morales)
15. Conclusion: Future Endeavors (CarrieLynn D. Reinhard and Christopher J.
Olson)
Index