Tag: suspension of disbelief

• 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

• 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

• A First Encounter with Live Sports Entertainment

  

  Two men enter the ring — the “squared circle” — muscles tense, skin already glistening with sweat. They circle the ring, calling out to their fans in the crowd to let their admiration roar and shake the building. The room still reverberates with the booming baselines of their entrance music, leaving the audiences’ ears to […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  November 30, 2015

  Fandom

  AAA, AAW, Bayley, Chris Hero, Christian Faith, Ciampa, co-construction, Ethan Page, Fenix, hyperreality, Immersion, interactivity, Lucha Libre, Lucha Underground, Mick Foley, NXT, Pentagon Jr., Professional Wrestling, Ric Flair, Sami Zayn, sports entertainment, suspension of disbelief, WWE