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All caught up in the kayfabe : understanding and appreciating pro-wrestling

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dc.contributor.authorJones, Lisa
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-15T00:38:46Z
dc.date.available2020-11-15T00:38:46Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.citationJones , L 2019 , ' All caught up in the kayfabe : understanding and appreciating pro-wrestling ' , Journal of the Philosophy of Sport , vol. 46 , no. 2 , pp. 276-291 . https://doi.org/10.1080/00948705.2019.1613410en
dc.identifier.issn1543-2939
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 258820631
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 84165324-656b-49d2-90a4-89ec5884f7fe
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85065973952
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000482273100011
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10023/20980
dc.description.abstractProfessional 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? Here I provide an analysis of pro-wrestling that explains and emphasises its narrative, dramatic and fictional aspects, showing it to be a complex representational work that can be appreciated aesthetically and emotionally on a number of levels.
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of the Philosophy of Sporten
dc.rights© 2019 IAPS. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created accepted version manuscript following peer review and as such may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1080/00948705.2019.1613410en
dc.subjectProfessional wrestlingen
dc.subjectFictionen
dc.subjectFictional worldsen
dc.subjectKayfabeen
dc.subjectMake-believeen
dc.subjectSpectacleen
dc.subjectAppreciationen
dc.subjectB Philosophy (General)en
dc.subjectT-NDASen
dc.subject.lccB1en
dc.titleAll caught up in the kayfabe : understanding and appreciating pro-wrestlingen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.description.versionPostprinten
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Philosophyen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/00948705.2019.1613410
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.date.embargoedUntil2020-11-15


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