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Author:   Dru Jeffries
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Weight:   0.349kg
ISBN:  

9780253044914

ISBN 10:   025304491
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   01 December 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Introduction: Storyworld, Wrestling, Entertainment / Dru Jeffries Part I: Corporate Kayfabe: WWE as Media Empire 1. World Building in the WWE Universe / Eero Laine 2. The Work of Wrestling: Struggles for Creative and Industrial Power in WWE Labor / Andrew Zolides 3. Mapping the WWE Universe: Territory, Media, Capitalism / Dru Jeffries and Andrew Kannegiesser 4. Narrative Smarts: Negotiations of Creative Authority in Wrestling's Reality Era / Christian Norman Part II: Marks and Smarts: WWE's Unruly Fandoms 5. Sport vs. Spectacle: Fan Discontent and the Rise of Sports Entertainment / Shane Toepfer 6. The Marks Have Gone Off-Script: Rogue Actors in WWE's Stands / Sam Ford 7. Botchamania and the Acoustics of Professional Wrestling / Christian B. Long Part III: Then, Now, Forever: Wresting with WWE's Past and Transmedia Future 8. ""Tout It Out"": WWE's Experimentation and Failure with Social TV / Cory Barker 9. ""We're Not Just Cheerleaders"": Reading the Postfeminist Polysemy of Total Divas / Anna F. Peppard 10. Daniel's Specter: Daniel Bryan, Chris Benoit, and the Work of Mourning / Sean Desilets Index"

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Like a great pro wrestler has a signature move for taking down a rival, every student and scholar of sports media and professional wrestling should have a book like this to help them pin down the importance of the WWE on sports and culture. -Adam Earnheardt, editor (with Paul Haridakis and Barbara Hugenberg) of Sports Fans, Identity, and Socialization: Exploring the Fandemonium

Like a great pro wrestler has a signature move for taking down a rival, every student and scholar of sports media and professional wrestling should have a book like this to help them pin down the importance of the WWE on sports and culture.--Adam Earnheardt, editor (with Paul Haridakis and Barbara Hugenberg) of Sports Fans, Identity, and Socialization: Exploring the Fandemonium

Author Information

Dru Jeffries teaches in the Cultural Studies department at Wilfrid Laurier University. He is author of Comic Book Film Style: Cinema at 24 Panels Per Second.

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