Sports entertainment: toward a high concept of professional wrestling

John Quinn

Sports entertainment: toward a high concept of professional wrestling

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This chapter correlates World Wrestling Entertainment’s (WWE) dominant form of professional wrestling, sports entertainment, with Justin Wyatt’s notion of high concept Hollywood filmmaking, to propose sports entertainment as a high concept of professional wrestling. Through a multi-modal qualitative discourse analysis of historic and contemporary professional wrestling artefacts, the chapter demonstrates how aesthetic and stylistic convergence, organised around the marketing of consumer products, directly shapes the function and form of WWE pay-per-view activity. Key findings in the chapter indicate that in the high concept wrestling text, simplistic narrative, star power, branding, product placement and event franchises blend together to create a style that maximises image, lifestyle, pre-sold concepts and ancillary consumer products.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Convergent wrestling
Subtitle of host publication	participatory culture, transmedia storytelling, and intertextuality in the squared circle
Editors	CarrieLynn, D. Reinhard , Christopher John Olson
Publisher	Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
Chapter	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9781351233989
ISBN (Print)	9780815377641
Publication status	Published - 5 Mar 2019

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Name	The Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture
Publisher	Routledge

Keywords

wrestling

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11 Mar 2019
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'The Scottish Warrior' Drew McIntyre: celebrity-commodity, symbolic ethnicity and authenticity
Quinn, J., 21 Dec 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Celebrity Studies.
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What the WWE-UFC merger means for the future of wrestling and MMA
Quinn, J., 12 Apr 2023, The Conversation 4 p.
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Analysing discourse in sports entertainment through multiple modalities
Quinn, J. & Silveira, C., 2 Apr 2018, In: The Popular Culture Studies Journal. 6, 1, p. 189-203 14 p.
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John Quinn
- School of Business and Creative Industries - Lecturer
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Quinn, J. (2019). Sports entertainment: toward a high concept of professional wrestling . In C. D. Reinhard , & C. J. Olson (Eds.), Convergent wrestling: participatory culture, transmedia storytelling, and intertextuality in the squared circle (The Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture). Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. https://www.routledge.com/Convergent-Wrestling-Participatory-Culture-Transmedia-Storytelling-and/Reinhard-Olson/p/book/9780815377641

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Quinn, J 2019, Sports entertainment: toward a high concept of professional wrestling . in CD Reinhard & CJ Olson (eds), Convergent wrestling: participatory culture, transmedia storytelling, and intertextuality in the squared circle. The Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. <https://www.routledge.com/Convergent-Wrestling-Participatory-Culture-Transmedia-Storytelling-and/Reinhard-Olson/p/book/9780815377641>

Sports entertainment: toward a high concept of professional wrestling . / Quinn, John.
Convergent wrestling: participatory culture, transmedia storytelling, and intertextuality in the squared circle. ed. / CarrieLynn, D. Reinhard ; Christopher John Olson. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2019. (The Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

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