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Convergent Wrestling

This book examines how the current era of convergence has affected, and is reflected in, the world of professional wrestling, which combines several different genres, including drama, action, comedy, horror, science fiction, and even romance. Professional wrestlings business practices exist at the intersection of bottom-up fan-centric strategies and strict top-down corporate control. Meanwhile, the wrestlers themselves combine aspects of carnival hucksters, actors/actresses, comedians, superheroes, martial artists, or stuntmen, and the narratives consist of everything from social critique to geopolitical allegories, and from soap opera melodramas to stereotyped exploitation. Bringing together the latest scholarship in the field, Convergent Wrestling analyzes various texts, business practices, and fan activities to explore the commonalities that define professional wrestling and consider how it exists in todays new media ecology. In addition, the book considers the professional wrestling industry from several different angles, from massive multinational conglomerate World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) to local indie federations. As such, it will appeal to scholars with interests in popular culture, media and cultural studies, and fan practices.

CarrieLynn D. Reinhard is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences at Dominican University, USA. She is the author of Fractured Fandoms: Contentious Communication in Fan Communities, the co-author of Possessed Women, Haunted States: Cultural Tensions in Exorcism Cinema, and the co-editor of Making Sense of Cinema: Empirical Studies into Film Spectators and Spectatorship and Heroes, Heroines, and Everything in Between: Challenging Gender and Sexuality Stereotypes in Childrens Entertainment Media.

Christopher J. Olson is a Ph.D. student in the English Department at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, USA, where he studies media, cinema, and digital studies. He is the author of 100 Greatest Cult Movies, co-author of Possessed Women, Haunted States: Cultural Tensions in Exorcism Cinema, and the co-editor of Making Sense of Cinema: Empirical Studies into Film Spectators and Spectatorship and Heroes, Heroines, and Everything in Between: Challenging Gender and Sexuality Stereotypes in Childrens Entertainment Media.

The Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture

Series Editor

C. Richard King

Washington State University, USA

Dedicated to a renewed engagement with culture, this series fosters critical, contextual analyses and cross-disciplinary examinations of popular culture as a site of cultural politics. It welcomes theoretically grounded and critically engaged accounts of the politics of contemporary popular culture and the popular dimensions of cultural politics. Without being aligned to a specific theoretical or methodological approach, The Cultural Politics of Media and Culture publishes monographs and edited collections that promote dialogues on central subjects, such as representation, identity, power, consumption, citizenship, desire, and difference.

Offering approachable and insightful analyses that complicate race, class, gender, sexuality, (dis)ability, and nation across various sites of production and consumption, including film, television, music, advertising, sport, fashion, food, youth, subcultures, and new media, The Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture welcomes work that explores the importance of text, context, and subtext as these relate to the ways in which popular cultures work alongside hegemony.

Also available in the series:

HBOs Original Voices

Race, Gender, Sexuality and Power

Edited by Victoria McCollum and Giuliana Monteverde

Contemporary European Cinema

Crisis Narratives and Narratives in Crisis

Betty Kaklamanidou and Ana Corbaln

Convergent Wrestling

Participatory Culture, Transmedia Storytelling, and Intertextuality in the Squared Circle

Edited by CarrieLynn D. Reinhard and Christopher J. Olson

For more information about this series, please visit: www.routledge.com/The-Cultural-Politics-of-Media-and-Popular-Culture/book-series/ASHSER-1395

Convergent Wrestling

Participatory Culture, Transmedia Storytelling, and Intertextuality in the Squared Circle

Edited by CarrieLynn D. Reinhard and Christopher J. Olson

First published 2019

by Routledge

2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

2019 selection and editorial matter, CarrieLynn D. Reinhard and Christopher J. Olson; individual chapters, the contributors

The right of CarrieLynn D. Reinhard and Christopher J. Olson to be identified as the author of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.

British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Reinhard, CarrieLynn D. author. | Olson, Christopher John.

Title: Convergent wrestling : participatory culture, transmedia storytelling, and intertextuality in the squared circle / CarrieLynn Reinhard and Christopher John Olson.

Description: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018051667 | ISBN 9780815377641 (hardback)

Subjects: LCSH: Wrestling. | WrestlingSocial aspects.

Classification: LCC GV1195 .R44 2019 | DDC 796.812dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018051667

ISBN: 978-0-8153-7764-1 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-351-23398-9 (ebk)

Typeset in Garamond

by Apex CoVantage, LLC

The authors would like to dedicate this book to all the wrestlers putting their bodies on the line for our entertainment, and to those specific wrestlers and promoters who, in their interactions with us, have helped us understand this world a little bit better:

Colt Cabana

Mike Petkovich

Dave Prazak

Sami Calihan

Brian Cage

Stephen Wolf

Zach Sabre Jr.

Dezmond Xavier

Contents

CARRIELYNN D. REINHARD AND CHRISTOPHER J. OLSON

ANNETTE HILL

CARRIELYNN D. REINHARD

OLIVER KROENER

JOHN QUINN

CHRISTOPHER A. MEDJESKY

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