Performance and Professional Wrestling is the first edited volume to consider professional wrestling explicitly from the vantage point of theatre and performanc

Professional wrestling is one of the most popular performance practices in the United States and around the world, drawing millions of spectators to live events

Professional Wrestling and the Commercial Stage examines professional wrestling as a century-old, theatrical form that spans from its local places of performanc

A wildly popular form of mass media and live entertainment, professional wrestling makes a spectacle of violent acts. With its long history of working contempor

Part sport, part performance art, professional wrestling's appeal crosses national, racial and gender boundaries--in large part by playing to national, racial a