... Broadway Revue * The Berle Phenomenon * A Midseason Slump * Wrestling and Roller Derby * The 1949 World Series * The Chicago School of * Cavalcade of Stars * Hopalong Cassidy * The New Bomb and the Scare * ...
Tópico(s): Cinema and Media Studies
2003 - Association of College and Research Libraries | Choice Reviews Online
... movies set in classical antiquity with muscle-bound stars generally drawn from the world of bodybuilding, athletics, professional wrestling, and fitness. The peplum genre flourished at midcentury, ...
Tópico(s): Visual Culture and Art Theory
2016 - University of Texas Press | Cinema Journal
... Mexican lucha libre (free fighting) is a variant of the transnational entertainment genre known in the Anglophone world as professional, all-in, or all-star wrestling. basic conventions (which may be familiar to many readers) are as follows: It is a contest between two or more wrestlers who compete not as themselves but as characters that they (or their promoters) invent. characters are morally coded, so that normally each match features one good guy (or team of good guys) and one bad guy (or team ...
Tópico(s): Rousseau and Enlightenment Thought
1997 - Duke University Press | Social Text
Holly Chard, Benjamin Litherland,
During the late 1980s, World Wrestling Federation star Hulk Hogan embarked on a career as a Hollywood movie star, with roles in several modestly budgeted films produced by New Line Cinema. Building on recent examinations of "celebrity migration" between fields and studies of "promotional culture," we explore how Hogan's celebrity persona adapted to various economies ...
Tópico(s): Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
2019 - | Journal of cinema and media studies
... other brain injuries in sport. Yet this former World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) star is at the forefront of publicising the health problems that sports such as ...
Tópico(s): Traumatic Brain Injury Research
2012 - Elsevier BV | The Lancet Neurology
... old North Carolina resident and former college basketball star at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She clearly captured the imagination of the nation as she won gold medals at the Sydney 2000 Olympics. She was one medal short of being the first to win five track gold medals. Another Olympian from Afton, Wyoming, Rulon Gardner, defeated the long-time Russian world wrestling champion, Alexandre Kareline, who had never lost an ...
Tópico(s): Medical History and Innovations
2001 - Lippincott Williams & Wilkins | Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery
... other in tights.”For the past five Marches, World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) has produced an awards show which honours its aged former performers, such as Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka and Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat, as pro-wrestling Legends. This awards show, according to WWE, is ‘an elegant, emotional, star-studded event that recognizes the in-ring achievements of the inductees and offers historical insights into this century- ...
Tópico(s): Rousseau and Enlightenment Thought
2009 - Queensland University of Technology | M/C Journal
... as “legitimate” sport. Instead, companies like the WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) call their work “sports entertainment,” and their major stars publicly acknowledge the scripted nature of their performances. Unlike other forms of scripted entertainment, ...
Tópico(s): Digital Games and Media
2010 - Johns Hopkins University Press | Theatre Journal
Melissa Vosen Callens, David Westerman, Aaron C. Cross,
... of Childhood in the Audience Reception of Professional Wrestling Stars.” Participations: The Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, vol. 16, no. 1, 2019, pp. 3– 29. Bahktin, Mikhail. Rabelais and His World. Translated by Helene Iswolsky, MIT Press, 1968. Barthes, ...
Tópico(s): Media Influence and Health
2023 - Wiley | The Journal of Popular Culture
... onstage with the greatest modern writers. Kevin Stein Wrestling Li Po for the Remote Fifth Star Press This verse collection is full of clever writing, interesting layouts, and commentary on life in modern America. The poems range from quiet and provocative to high-energy romps, both of which manage to convey a unique view of the world, one full of variable tensions. Nota Bene Michnik ...
Tópico(s): American and British Literature Analysis
2014 - University of Oklahoma | World Literature Today
Jodi B. Katzman, Susan Fry Bovet,
... see page 12). Pizza Hut marked the opening of its 10,000th restaurant in the world with an SMT featuring soccer star Pele live from Brazil (page 16). TOP TEN VIDEO NEWS RELEASES FOR FIRST QUARTER 1995 Hits Audience (in millions) 1. Doritos/Super Bowl Commercials Frito-Lay, Inc./Robert Chang Productions 258 77 2. Shaq vs. Shaq/Reebok International Ltd. 250 66 3. Wrestlemania XI News Conference World Wrestling Federation/Titan Sports 483 56 4. Bean Bag ...
Tópico(s): Digital Games and Media
1995 - Public Relations Society of America | Public relations journal
Conor Heffernan, Joseph Taylor,
In 2013, Becky Lynch, an Irish professional wrestler, was signed by WWE, marking the beginning of her rise to superstardom. By 2020, Lynch had become a major WWE star, participating in the first women's Wrestlemania main event with Charlotte Flair and Ronda Rousey. While not the first Irish wrestler in WWE, Lynch is the first to reach superstar status. This article focuses on her portrayal in Irish media, which often finds itself in a unique position between sport and entertainment. Despite her ...
Tópico(s): Cinema and Media Studies
2024 - Taylor & Francis | Sport in Society
... 44. Chicago Daily Tribune. 4 September 1911, 145. "Wrestling Bulletins at the Star,"Kansas City Star, 4 September 1911,8.46. ...
Tópico(s): Martial Arts: Techniques, Psychology, and Education
2000 - Taylor & Francis | Historian
... the ladies involved turns out to be a wrestling star.
Tópico(s): Media, Religion, Digital Communication
2007 - Oxford University Press | Literary and Linguistic Computing
... the "sport" and the medium is explored. The star of professional wrestling in Japan during these years was the former ...
Tópico(s): American Sports and Literature
1986 - SAGE Publishing | International Review for the Sociology of Sport
Conor Heffernan, Claire Warden,
... famous McMahon-owned global entertainment provider, the WWF (World Wrestling Federation, renamed the WWE in 2002). Pursuing this ... 66). That McMahon was branching out into the world of health and fitness was not too surprising. Former wrestling bookers, trainers, and athletes, have all noted McMahon’ ... fondness for large, muscular athletes. Indeed, in the world of bodybuilding, McMahon was known for signing bodybuilders to take part in his wrestling events, despite their lack of formal training (Hotten ...
Tópico(s): Fashion and Cultural Textiles
2022 - Wiley | The Journal of American Culture
... reports almost daily incidents—things being thrown, jostling, wrestling and so forth. Some of these residents were repatriated from a nearby mainly White "problem" estate called the Manor, an estate unwilling to accommodate these newcomers. In 1992 The Star newspaper reported, "For months now, there have been ...
Tópico(s): Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
2011 - Taylor & Francis | Visual Anthropology
Kimberly S. Schimmel, C. Lee Harrington, Denise D. Bielby,
... sample. [51] CitationJenkins, '"Never Trust a Snake!" WWF Wrestling as Masculine Melodrama'. [52] Harrington and Bielby, 'Global ...
Tópico(s): Sports Analytics and Performance
2007 - Taylor & Francis | Sport in Society
... labor confronts First World industry in a professional wrestling match. The champion of the Third World is ... pomp and screaming splendor of a televised pro-wrestling match. As the champions strut around the ring ... the world." Sung by the biggest American pop stars of the mid-1980s who called themselves "Band ...
Tópico(s): Gender, Feminism, and Media
2007 - Johns Hopkins University Press | Modern fiction studies
... The International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF), The International Wrestling Association (IWA) and the International Cycling Union (UCI). ...
Tópico(s): Sports, Gender, and Society
2012 - Routledge | The International Journal of the History of Sport
... An Appraisal,” APSA 2008 (Boston, USA); Jeffrey Knopf, “Wrestling with Deterrence: Bush Administration Strategy after 9/11,” ...
Tópico(s): Political Conflict and Governance
2010 - Taylor & Francis | Studies in Conflict and Terrorism
... law, Tim Fleming, is also a one-time star rodeo performer forced into an early retirement as a result of serious injuries incurred in steer wrestling. Tim Fleming finds himself only able to compete ... activities that include calf roping, team roping, steer wrestling, horseback riding (saddle and bareback), bull riding (already noted), and barrel racing. There are also events designed especially for college and high school populations. The scale of rodeos in Canada is significant. In 2003, no less than sixty-five professional rodeos took place in Western Canada—where Heartland was filmed. The Calgary Stampede was founded in 1912 and is the world's largest equine festival. Several of its elements— ...
Tópico(s): Leadership, Courage, and Heroism Studies
2022 - University of Illinois Press | Journal of Sport History
Eunice G. Pollack, Stephen H. Norwood,
... of escapist entertainment" (230). Catch-as-catch-can wrestling—the "tug and pull and grunt game" (229)—in which local grapplers matched their strength, speed, endurance, and "mental acuity" (6)—was superseded by "Slam Bang" theatrics in which American stars thrilled audiences with "flying tackles, … airplane spins," and "well-placed kicks to the 'Johnny Risko'" (228–30)—this "clownish burlesque" (224) generating massive gate receipts. Hatton begins by sketching the functions of wrestling among the First Nations, especially Chipewyans in the ...
Tópico(s): Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
2018 - | Great plains quarterly
... interesting television phenomenon that Chun discusses is professional wrestling, which started broadcasting in 1954. Because of the scarcity of television sets at the time, watching television became a communal activity. The star wrester of early television was Rikidozan. Rikidozan was ...
Tópico(s): Asian Culture and Media Studies
2010 - Cambridge University Press | The Journal of Asian Studies
... sport was dropped because no one cared anymore. Wrestling was obsolete, shackled to its “older virtues,” and sometime between the first Games in Athens and the xxx 2012 Olympiad, people had stopped paying attention. There were no international stars, no high-octane replays. The sport was plodding ...
Tópico(s): American Sports and Literature
2014 - Colorado State University | Colorado review
Kristin Liabo, Laurenz Langer, Antonia Simon, Kathy‐ann Daniel‐Gittens, Alex Elwick, Janice Tripney,
... find themselves in the middle of this dilemma, wrestling to find solutions. Children and young people aged ... Point Averages (GPAs) and Standardised Testing and Reporting (STAR) test score results collected each spring for all ...
Tópico(s): Early Childhood Education and Development
2016 - The Campbell Collaboration | Campbell Systematic Reviews
... tapestry composition depicting Senegal's national sport of wrestling (Fig. 10), drew inspiration from a character in ...
Tópico(s): North African History and Literature
2018 - UCLA James S. Coleman African Studies Center | African Arts
... the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF), the International Wrestling Association (IWA) and the International Cycling Union (UCI) ... Sport System’”, 107. 22. Ibid. 23. Zhou, ‘Super Star's Quotation’, 3. 24. Zhang, ‘The Legendary Fencer’, ... Labour, Sport Labour’, 395. 27. China's Child Stars, BBC, July 1995. 28. Jesse Zentz, ‘Olympic Gold ...
Tópico(s): Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics
2012 - Routledge | The International Journal of the History of Sport
Luis Javier Pentón Herrera, Ethan Trinh, Gloria Park,
... 2019). An autoethnography of a language teacher education: Wrestling with ideologies and identity positions. Teacher Education Quarterly, ...
Tópico(s): Digital Storytelling and Education
2023 - Wiley | TESOL Journal
... soft” and “pretty” and “less awake,” but after wrestling with thoughts of subversion, she finally accrues the courage to confront her husband, “Are you cheating on me?” Although this reading satisfies the insatiable tabloid interest in the often-concealed personal life of Beyoncé, the larger than life pop star, there is also a meticulously layered connotative interpretation ...
Tópico(s): Race, History, and American Society
2021 - Wiley | The Journal of Popular Culture