Tag: Reality

• Experiencing the Co-Construction of Kayfabe: AAW Take No Prisoners

  

  This blog post expands on the ideas of the co-construction of kayfabe, an idea I presented at the Popular Culture Association 2016 conference in Seattle. For this post, I reflect on a live wrestling event I attended in an attempt to define what my partner, Christopher Olson, and I mean by “convergent wrestling.” The entire presentation […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  May 9, 2016

  Audience/Reception Studies, Communication Studies, Professional Wrestling

  AAW, Bayley, C. M. Punk, co-construction, Colt Cabana, convergence, convergent wrestling, detachment, entanglement, Enzo Amore, Fenix, hyperreality, Immersion, kayfabe, Lucha Underground, narrative transportation theory, Pentagon Jr., Presence, Professional Wrestling, Reality, realness, Sami Zayn, sports entertainment, suspension of disbelief, Tommaso Ciampa, wrestling

• Variations on Theme: Boudu, Toni, and Mother Nature

  [Film analysis paper from 1999] In ancient times, many cultures conceived of the world as a snake devouring itself, creating a continuous circle.  In modern times, film critic Andre Bazin had a similar conception.  He believed everything in reality was connected to everything else. The world, reality, is continuous, circular.  Before the rules of chaos […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  August 22, 2012

  Text Analysis

  Andre Bazin, Boudu Saved From Drowning, Cinematography, Jean Renoir, Nature, Reality, Relationships, Representations, Toni