Wrestling in Britain

Sporting Entertainments, Celebrity and Audiences

Benjamin Litherland (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-89408-5 (ISBN)

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At the intersection of sport, entertainment and performance, wrestling occupies a unique position in British popular culture. This book is the first of its kind to offer a detailed historical and cultural analysis of British professional wrestling, exploring the shifting popularity of the sport as well as its wider social significance.

At the intersection of sport, entertainment and performance, wrestling occupies a unique position in British popular culture. This is the first book to offer a detailed historical and cultural analysis of British professional wrestling, exploring the shifting popularity of the sport as well as its wider social significance.

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.

Benjamin Litherland is a member of the Centre for Participatory Culture at the University of Huddersfield, UK. He is a media and cultural studies scholar, and his existing research portfolio demonstrates a diverse and interdisciplinary approach to the study of media, film, and sports and games

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

Erscheinungsdatum	29.11.2019
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Research in Sports History
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	360 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Kampfsport / Selbstverteidigung
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-367-89408-4 / 0367894084
ISBN-13	978-0-367-89408-5 / 9780367894085
Zustand	Neuware