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Professional Wrestling in the Digital Age

Dru Jeffries

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Indiana University Press
01 December 2019

Television; Media studies; Wrestling

Series: The Year's Work: Studies in Fan Culture and Cultural Theory

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.

Edited by: Dru Jeffries
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 513g
ISBN: 9780253044907
ISBN 10: 0253044901
Series: The Year's Work: Studies in Fan Culture and Cultural Theory
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 01 December 2019
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: Storyworld, Wrestling, Entertainment / Dru Jeffries Part I: Corporate Kayfabe: WWE as Media Empire 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 Part II: Marks and Smarts: WWE's Unruly Fandoms 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 Part III: Then, Now, Forever: Wresting with WWE's Past and Transmedia Future 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 Index

Dru Jeffries teaches in the Cultural Studies department at Wilfrid Laurier University. He is author of Comic Book Film Style: Cinema at 24 Panels Per Second.

Reviews for #WWE: Professional Wrestling in the Digital Age

Like a great pro wrestler has a signature move for taking down a rival, every student and scholar of sports media and professional wrestling should have a book like this to help them pin down the importance of the WWE on sports and culture. -Adam Earnheardt, editor (with Paul Haridakis and Barbara Hugenberg) of Sports Fans, Identity, and Socialization: Exploring the Fandemonium