War Games Revisited

John Quinn

War Games Revisited

John Quinn

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Abstract

This blog post revisits the War Games format of professional wrestling, applying Strauss' notion of binary oppositions to examine how the 1989 Great American Bash and 2017 NXT TakeOver: War Games events constructed meaning and defined differing levels of engagement and bodily co-presence with the wrestled television text.

Original language	English
Specialist publication	Professional Wrestling Studies Association
Publication status	Published - 21 Nov 2017

Keywords

Binary opposition
Professional wrestling

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https://prowrestlingstudies.wordpress.com/2017/11/21/wargames-revisited/

Routledge Taylor & Francis Group (Publisher)
Quinn, J. (Peer reviewer)
11 Mar 2019
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Publication peer-review

2 Article
1 Chapter
1 Doctoral Thesis

What the WWE-UFC merger means for the future of wrestling and MMA
Quinn, J., 12 Apr 2023, The Conversation 4 p.
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

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Sports entertainment: toward a high concept of professional wrestling
Quinn, J., 5 Mar 2019, Convergent wrestling: participatory culture, transmedia storytelling, and intertextuality in the squared circle. Reinhard , C. D. & Olson, C. J. (eds.). Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, (The Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

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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.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Open Access
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War Games Revisited

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Routledge Taylor & Francis Group (Publisher)

Research output

What the WWE-UFC merger means for the future of wrestling and MMA

Sports entertainment: toward a high concept of professional wrestling

Analysing discourse in sports entertainment through multiple modalities

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