Real Fake Fighting: the Aesthetic of Qualified Realism in Japanese Professional Wrestling

Professional wrestling is a performance art in which the line between fact and fiction is often obscured. Much of the existing scholarship on the medium that examines its dynamics regard reality and artifice focuses on the role of the artificial, analyzing pro-wrestling as primarily a form of height...

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Main Author: Marino, Clara
Format: Others
Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 2021
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/1061
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2099&context=masters_theses_2