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Performance and Professional Wrestling

By Broderick Chow (Editor), Eero Laine (Editor), Claire Warden (Editor)
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By Broderick Chow (Editor), Eero Laine (Editor), Claire Warden (Editor)
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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 squar...

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