MIT Comparative Media Studies: Pro Wrestling
Apr 29, 2007 16:43:26 GMT -5
Post by LWPD on Apr 29, 2007 16:43:26 GMT -5
The latest colloquium from MIT's Comparative Media Studies Pro Wrestling series has now been converted into Podcast form:
'What's Live Got To Do With It?' by Sharon Mazer
It's an interesting analysis which measures the effects degrees of audience interaction and variance in audience composition has on two uniform WWE events performed in distinct environments. Runs just under an hour and a half.
"It is possible that live performance is not so live any more. In this talk, Sharon Mazer looked at the ways that audience “performances” may be seen to challenge the live-ness of the onstage action in the Road to Wrestlemania 23, which the WWE takes to New Zealand in early 2007, and in Te Matatini, the National Kapa Haka Festival, a biennial Maori cultural performance competition happening that same weekend. Mazer is head of the Department of Theatre and Film Studies at the University of Canterbury (Christchurch, New Zealand). Her book Professional Wrestling: Sport and Spectacle was published by the University Press of Mississippi, and her current research is focused on Maori performance."
LWPD (on a side note...two additional 'non-pro wres' seminar podcasts that I'd recommend from MIT's Comparative Media Studies program would include: Collaboration and Collective Wisdom...and Folk Cultures and Digital Cultures)
'What's Live Got To Do With It?' by Sharon Mazer
It's an interesting analysis which measures the effects degrees of audience interaction and variance in audience composition has on two uniform WWE events performed in distinct environments. Runs just under an hour and a half.
"It is possible that live performance is not so live any more. In this talk, Sharon Mazer looked at the ways that audience “performances” may be seen to challenge the live-ness of the onstage action in the Road to Wrestlemania 23, which the WWE takes to New Zealand in early 2007, and in Te Matatini, the National Kapa Haka Festival, a biennial Maori cultural performance competition happening that same weekend. Mazer is head of the Department of Theatre and Film Studies at the University of Canterbury (Christchurch, New Zealand). Her book Professional Wrestling: Sport and Spectacle was published by the University Press of Mississippi, and her current research is focused on Maori performance."
LWPD (on a side note...two additional 'non-pro wres' seminar podcasts that I'd recommend from MIT's Comparative Media Studies program would include: Collaboration and Collective Wisdom...and Folk Cultures and Digital Cultures)
