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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
208
Utgivningsdatum
2021-09-30
Förlag
The University of North Carolina Press
Dimensioner
206 x 196 x 13 mm
Vikt
182 g
ISBN
9781469663418

Body Drop

Notes on Fandom and Pain in Professional Wrestling

av Brian Oliu
Häftad,  Engelska, 2021-09-30
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Professional wrestling is a strange beast, full of contradictions-it's part live soap opera, part hyper-masculine violent spectacle. It's an indelibly American pastime enjoyed by millions and leads a select group of wrestlers to international fame. It's also a sport that leaves many of its athletes broken and battered, at serious risk of addiction, poverty, and early death. Body Drop looks deeply at the nuances of professional wrestling and its strange place within American culture from the perspective of fandom. Brian Oliu offers deeply personal meditations on such topics as disability, chronic pain, body image, masculinity, class, and more, all through the lens of American professional wrestling. Wrestling is a sport that is gleefully fake, but the people who love it are very real. In holding up this particular part of American culture to scrutiny, Oliu acknowledges that wrestling, like our world, is one that has been crafted, but by showing readers the scaffolding that holds everything up, he invites us to figure out what holds our own realities upright.

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Brian¿Oliu teaches, writes, and fights out of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He is the author of two chapbooks and five full-length collections of nonfiction, including War Dragons: All Things Burn.

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