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Carte Fighting for Recognition R Tyson Smith

Fighting for Recognition

Identity, Masculinity, and the Act of Violence in Professional Wrestling

Autor: R Tyson Smith
Limbă: engleză
Legare: Copertă tare
Editura: Duke University Press
Disponibilitate: În depozitul extern
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In "Fighting for Recognition," R. Tyson Smith enters the world of independent professional wrestling...

Informații despre carte

Autor
R Tyson Smith
Limbă
engleză
Legare
Carte - Copertă tare
Publicat
2014
Pagini
240
EAN
9780822357094
ISBN
0822357097
Enbook ID
04731560
Editura
Duke University Press
Greutate
463
Dimensiuni
152 x 229 x 15

Descriere completă

In "Fighting for Recognition," R. Tyson Smith enters the world of independent professional wrestling, a community-based entertainment staged in community centers, high school gyms, and other modest venues. Like the big-name, televised pro wrestlers who originally inspired them, indie wrestlers engage in choreographed fights in character. Smith details the experiences, meanings, and motivations of the young men who wrestle as "Lethal" or "Southern Bad Boy," despite receiving little to no pay and risking the possibility of serious and sometimes permanent injury. Exploring intertwined issues of gender, class, violence, and the body, he sheds new light on the changing sources of identity in a postindustrial society that increasingly features low wages, insecure employment, and fragmented social support. Smith uncovers the tensions between strength and vulnerability, pain and solidarity, and homophobia and homoeroticism that play out both backstage and in the ring as the wrestlers seek recognition from fellow performers and devoted fans.

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