Tag: football

• Fourth Wall and Professional Wrestling

  

  In this brief essay, I want to share an idea I have had about how the concept of audience interaction helps to define sports entertainment as existing at the intersection of sports and entertainment. Audience interaction with content (what I have written about here as content interactivity) is the idea that the audience member (either […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  December 21, 2016

  Professional Wrestling, Uncategorized

  Audience, breaking the fourth wall, co-construction, convergence, convergent, crowd noise, expectations, football, fourth wall, identities, improv, interaction, kayfabe, narrative, participation, Professional Wrestling, text, theater

• Genre Mashing in Professional Wrestling

  

  After the event of this weekend, where normally we are only needing to remember our veterans but must now also remember those young men and women who died at the whim of a terrorist — of a misogynist extremist — I need to take a break from discussing fractured fandom and the sexist, and misogynist, […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  May 27, 2014

  Audience/Reception Studies, Critical/Cultural Studies, Fandom, Superheroes, Text Analysis

  aesthetics, athleticism, authenticity, baseball, C2E2, character development, Comic books, Dave Bautista, Diamond Dallas Page, ECW, fake, fans, football, Headlocked, Hulk Hogan, Jerry Lawler, Jill Thompson, John Cena, legitimacy, Lex Luger, Mick Foley, narrative, PaperCutz, polysemic, Professional Wrestling, Raven, Rowdy Roddy Piper, sports, sports entertainment, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Superheroes, supervillains, The Wrestler, Vince McMahon, WCW, wrestling, WWE, WWE Superstars, WWF