Performance and Professional Wrestling

Introduction: Hamlet Doesn't Blade: Professional Wrestling, Theatre, and Performance Broderick Chow, Eero Laine, Claire Warden Audience Ch1 The dissipation of "heat": changing role(s) of audience in professional wrestling in the U.S. Jon Ezell Ch2 Pops and promos: speech and silence in professional wrestling Claire Warden Ch3 Playful engagements: Wrestling with the attendant masses Stephen Di Benedetto Circulation Ch4 Stadium Sized Theatre: WWE and the World of Professional Wrestling Eero Laine Ch5 Wrestling's Not Real, It's Hyperreal: Professional Wrestling Video Games Nick Ware Lucha Ch6 Don't Leave Us in the Hands of Criminals: The Contested Cultural Politics of Lucha Libre Heather Levi Ch7 Wrestling With Burlesque, Burlesquing Lucha Libre Nina Hoechtl Gender Ch8 The Impact of Women's Pro Wrestling Performances on the Transformation of Gender Keiko AIBA (Translated by Minata HARA) Ch9 "Most women train with mostly men, so why not wrestle them?" The performance and experience of intergender professional wrestling in Britain Carrie Dunn Queerness Ch10 Grappling and Ga(y)zing: Gender, Sexuality and Performance in the WWE debuts of Goldust and Marlena Janine Bradbury Ch11 'King of the ring, and queen of it too': the exotic masculinity of Adrian Street Stephen Greer Ch12 "Gold-dust": Ricki Starr's Ironic Performances of the Queer Commodity in Popular Entertainment Laura Katz Rizzo Bodies Ch13 Muscle Memory: Re-enacting the fin-de-siecle Strongman in Pro Wrestling Broderick D.V. Chow Ch14 The Hard Sell; The Performance of Pain in Professional Wrestling Jamie Lewis Hadley Race Ch15 "Tell Them It's What Their Grandfathers Got": Racial Violence in Southern Professional Wrestling Charles Hughes Ch16 Grappling with the "New Racism:" Race, Ethnicity, and Post-Colonialism in British Wrestling during the 1970s and 1980s Nicholas Porter Ch17 Some Moments of Flag Desecration in Professional Wrestling Morgan Daniels Epilogue: The Game of Life Sharon Mazer Bibliography Index