... reveal this dynamic in granular detail, we propose ‘kayfabe’ as an epistemic lens for the interpretation of ...
Tópico(s): Public Relations and Crisis Communication
2020 - SAGE Publishing | Public Relations Inquiry
... studies, this article outlines how the concepts of kayfabe, smart fandom and marking out help address a ...
Tópico(s): Crime, Deviance, and Social Control
2020 - SAGE Publishing | Political Studies Review
Benjamin Day, Alister Wedderburn,
... by four pieces of wrestling argot (“heat,” “heel,” “kayfabe,” and “cutting a promo”), we use process-tracing ...
Tópico(s): Gender, Security, and Conflict
2022 - Oxford University Press | International Studies Quarterly
... s grounding in the unique wrestling practice of kayfabe has informed his engagement with the malleable public- ...
Tópico(s): Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
2019 - Routledge | Celebrity Studies
... are huge (“yuge!”), the hyperbole is excessive, and kayfabe rules. Wrestling is about heat, not truth. It’ ...
Tópico(s): Social and Cultural Dynamics
2017 - Cambridge University Press | TDR/The Drama Review
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsBenjamin LitherlandBenjamin Litherland is a lecturer in Journalism and Media at the University of Huddersfield, UK. He has recently completed his PhD examining the history of sparring contests, combat performances and professional wrestling in England, 1700–1980.
Tópico(s): American Sports and Literature
2014 - Routledge | Celebrity Studies
Abstract Company history has been criticized for many methodological failings, including empiricism, excessive simplification, and the implicit or explicit assumption of a shared history understood and accepted by all members of the organization. This article attempts to illuminate some of the problems identified by these criticisms through telling both a history of an organization and 'the history of a history'. Using World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) as an example, the article outlines the organization' ...
Tópico(s): Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
2006 - Taylor & Francis | Management & Organizational History
Professional wrestling is a popular, global, performance phenomenon that is in many respects sport-like, but tends to be shunned by serious sports fans for its alleged 'fakeness'. Yet its own fans often behave exactly like regular sports fans: getting caught up in the action, responding emotionally to the performances, and engaging in critical analysis of the competitive strategies and the turns of events. How does this alleged 'fake sport' engender such complex and deeply emotional appreciation? ...
Tópico(s): Doping in Sports
2019 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of the Philosophy of Sport
Drawing on Bourdieu’s concept of ‘the biographical illusion’ and Eakin’s concept of the ‘relational self’, this article explores the ways in which the conventions of wrestling add new layers of multimodal storytelling in Box Brown and Brandon Easton’s Andre the Giant graphic biographies. Through textual and visual analyses, the article argues that Easton’s first-person narration blurs the relationship between biographical writer and subject to create an intimate portrait of Andre as a conflicted individual. ...
Tópico(s): Artistic and Creative Research
2017 - Open Library of Humanities | The Comics Grid Journal of Comics Scholarship
... that have blurred the lines between staged performance (“kayfabe”) and reality, this article suggests that the business ...
Tópico(s): American Sports and Literature
2019 - University of Toronto Press | Canadian Review of American Studies
... the storytelling within wrestling, introducing the concept of kayfabe, highlighting similarities in narrative between wrestling and serialized ... social media within wrestling, arguing that they impact kayfabe and allow the audience to change scenarios and ...
Tópico(s): Digital Games and Media
2019 - Springer Science+Business Media | Lecture notes in computer science
CarrieLynn D. Reinhard, Christopher J. Olson,
In traditional professional wrestling, kayfabe involves the performance of fictional characters and matches as authentic. Such performances may involve a presentation of self that does ... wrestlers' rhetoric of authenticity versus their rhetoric of kayfabe as they, like other United States citizens, wrestled ... remains a possibility, suggesting an extension of the kayfabe concept.
Tópico(s): Media, Gender, and Advertising
2024 - Routledge | Celebrity Studies
... the berserk charismatic, and the fractal fictions of kayfabe, I develop a theory of the delegation of ...
Tópico(s): Crime, Deviance, and Social Control
2024 - Wiley | Sociological Forum
Management history has been criticized for many methodological failings. This paper illuminates those criticisms by telling the history of an organization, World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), and explaining how this history was created. Including elements of this format in other organizational histories would help readers assess reliability and veracity.
Tópico(s): American Sports and Literature
2003 - Academy of Management | Academy of Management Proceedings
Conor Heffernan, Claire Warden,
... describe this “beyond contest,” this uncomfortable boundary sitting: kayfabe. Emerging from wrestling’s carnival foundations, kayfabe is the maintenance of the fictional story. Traditionally, wrestling protected kayfabe by, say, not allowing ‘antagonists’ to travel together ... because it is a pleasurable, entertaining process. While kayfabe is a wrestling term, it is now being ... the prevalence of simulacra. Most notably, the term ‘kayfabe’ has recently been used by Shannon Bow O’ ... real and the fictional, to truly decipher the kayfabe. Clearly some elements are obviously fake—in terms ...
Tópico(s): Fashion and Cultural Textiles
2022 - Wiley | The Journal of American Culture
Rebecca Karp, Orie Shelef, Robert Wuebker,
... scientific approach" to decision-making—what we call kayfabe experimentation—is always the optimal experiment. Even if ...
Tópico(s): Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
2024 - RELX Group (Netherlands) | SSRN Electronic Journal
... in during the COVID-19 pandemic, namely Cartoonist Kayfabe, the Sequential Artists Workshop, and Comic Lab. I ...
Tópico(s): Artistic and Creative Research
2023 - Open Library of Humanities | The Comics Grid Journal of Comics Scholarship
... have become increasingly intertwined. The days of keeping 'kayfabe' have made way for a more authentic experience ...
Tópico(s): Gender, Feminism, and Media
2023 - Routledge | Celebrity Studies
... which Taylor appeared to endorse. The article 'Breaking Kayfabe: An Exploration of the History of the History,' ...
Tópico(s): Management Theory and Practice
2003 - Academy of Management | Academy of Management Proceedings