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Title #WWE : professional wrestling in the digital age / edited by Dru Jeffries.

Publication Info. Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 221 pages).
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Series The year's work: studies in fan culture and cultural theory
Year's work (Bloomington, Ind.)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents Introduction : Storyworld, Wrestling, Entertainment / Dru Jeffries -- 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 -- 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 -- 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.
Summary The millions of fans who watch World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) programs each year are well aware of their role in building the narrative of the sport. #WWE: Professional Wrestling in the Digital Age explores the intersections between media, technology, and fandom in WWE's contemporary programming and business practices. In the Reality Era of WWE (2011 to the present), wrestling narratives have increasingly drawn on real-life personalities and events that stretch beyond the story-world created and maintained by WWE. At the same time, the internet and fandom have a greater influence on the company than ever before. By examining various sites of struggle and negotiation between WWE executives and in-ring performers, between the product and its fans, and between the company and the rest of the wrestling industry, the contributors to this volume highlight the role of various media platforms in shaping and disseminating WWE narratives. Treating the company and its product not merely as sports entertainment, but also as a brand, an employer, a company, a content producer, and an object of fandom, #WWE conceptualizes the evolution of professional wrestling's most successful company in the digital era.-- Provided by publisher.
Subject World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc.
World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (OCoLC)fst00777552
Wrestling.
Wrestling.
Wrestling. (OCoLC)fst01181580
Added Author Jeffries, Dru, editor.
Added Title WWE
World Wrestling Entertainment
Other Form: Print version: #WWE. Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2019] 9780253044907 (DLC) 2019287303
ISBN 9780253044938 (electronic book)
9780253044945 (electronic book)
0253044944 (electronic book)
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