Body Drop: Notes on Fandom and Pain in Professional Wrestling

Professional wrestling is a strange beast full of contradictions--part live soap opera, part hypermasculine violent spectacle. It...
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Author: Brian Oliu
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Body Drop: Notes on Fandom and Pain in Professional Wrestling by Oliu, Brian

Body Drop: Notes on Fandom and Pain in Professional Wrestling

€27,04

Body Drop: Notes on Fandom and Pain in Professional Wrestling

€27,04
Author: Brian Oliu
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Professional wrestling is a strange beast full of contradictions--part live soap opera, part hypermasculine violent spectacle. It is an indelibly American pastime enjoyed by millions and leads a select group of wrestlers to international fame. It's also a sport that leaves many of its athletes broken and battered, at serious risk of addiction, poverty, and early death. Body Drop looks deeply at the nuances of professional wrestling and its strange place within American culture. Brian Oliu offers deeply personal meditations on such topics as disability, chronic pain, body image, masculinity, class, and more, all through the lens of American professional wrestling.

Wrestling is a sport that is gleefully fake, but the people who love it are very real. In holding up this particular part of American culture to scrutiny, Oliu acknowledges that the wrestling world, like our own, is one that has been crafted, but by showing readers the scaffolding that holds everything up, he invites us to figure out what holds our own realities straight.



Author: Brian Oliu
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 09/28/2021
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.10h x 7.70w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781469663418

About the Author
Oliu, Brian: - Brian Oliu teaches, writes, and fights out of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He is the author of three chapbooks and five full-length collections of nonfiction, including So You Know It's Me.

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