Tag: Rowdy Roddy Piper

• Legion: Or, the Exorcism Movie that Makes Me Sad for Roddy Piper

  

  I recently came to be interested in professional wrestling. For awhile there — as in most of my life — I thought wrestling to be beneath me, an entertainment that degrades those who do it and those who watch it. I was wrong: there are many layers to this sports entertainment, and it is quite […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  October 29, 2014

  Critical/Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Gender Studies

  agency, alcoholism, Baptism, Baptist, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Costa Chica, Dave Bautista, demons, epilepsy, exorcism, exorcist, Hulk Hogan, Legion, Mexico, molestation, pigs, post-verbal, Professional Wrestling, rape, Roddy Piper, Rowdy Roddy Piper, sports entertainment, The Rock, WWE, WWF

• 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