Tag: intertextual

• Convergent Wrestling: The Nature of Professional Wrestling

  

  Professional wrestling has been criticized for its emphasis on the fiction of its entertainment rather than the reality of its sport. My partner, Christopher Olson (Seems Obvious to Me), and I argue that professional wrestling functions as a convergent media product, representing a vital text for examining the media landscape of the 21st century. The […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  December 15, 2015

  Audience/Reception Studies, Comics Studies, Communication Studies, Fandom, Film Studies, Superheroes, Television Studies

  AAW, C. M. Punk, co-construction, Coleridge, Comic books, convergence, convergent, fans, hyperreality, intertextual, Kaiju Big Battel, kayfabe, Lucha Libre, Lucha Underground, NXT, polysemous, polyvalent, Professional Wrestling, Robert Rodriguez, sports entertainment, suspension of disbelief, The Road Warrior, Tolkien, wrestling, WWE, WWF