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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Like a great pro wrestler has a signature move for taking down a rival, every student and scholar of sports media and professional wrestling should have a book like this to help them pin down the importance of the WWE on sports and culture."—Adam Earnheardt, editor (with Paul Haridakis and Barbara Hugenberg) of Sports Fans, Identity, and Socialization: Exploring the Fandemonium
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Storyworld, Wrestling, Entertainment / Dru Jeffries
Part I: Corporate Kayfabe: WWE as Media Empire
1. World Building in the WWE Universe / Eero Laine
2. The Work of Wrestling: Struggles for Creative and Industrial Power in WWE Labor / Andrew Zolides
3. Mapping the WWE Universe: Territory, Media, Capitalism / Dru Jeffries and Andrew Kannegiesser
4. Narrative Smarts: Negotiations of Creative Authority in Wrestling's Reality Era / Christian Norman
Part II: Marks and Smarts: WWE's Unruly Fandoms
5. Sport vs. Spectacle: Fan Discontent and the Rise of Sports Entertainment / Shane Toepfer
6. The Marks Have Gone Off-Script: Rogue Actors in WWE's Stands / Sam Ford
7. Botchamania and the Acoustics of Professional Wrestling / Christian B. Long
Part III: Then, Now, Forever: Wresting with WWE's Past and Transmedia Future
8. "Tout It Out": WWE's Experimentation and Failure with Social TV / Cory Barker
9. "We're Not Just Cheerleaders": Reading the Postfeminist Polysemy of Total Divas / Anna F. Peppard
10. Daniel's Specter: Daniel Bryan, Chris Benoit, and the Work of Mourning / Sean Desilets
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