Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 449 g
Sporting Entertainments, Celebrity and Audiences
Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 449 g
Reihe: Routledge Research in Sports History
ISBN: 978-0-8153-8571-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
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.
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Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Kampfsportarten, Selbstverteidigung Ringen
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
- Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Geschichte des Sports
Weitere Infos & Material
Introduction 1. The Field Vs the Stage 2. "Are the Bouts Rigged?" The Enduring Possibility of Sporting Entertainment 3. "Equally Vociferous Both for And Against": Compromise, Conflict and Pleasure 4. Villains, Blue-Eyes and The Melodrama of Celebrity 5. "Everything Is Eventually Going to Find Its Way on The Goggle-Box": Television and Spectacle Epilogue