Do you consider professional wrestling to be a form of theatre?

>>9472890
wrestling is basically the modern theater version of a homeric poem.

>http://www.ngca.co.uk/docs/Barthes_WorldOfWrestling.pdf

I dunno, read this.

>>9472966
While I agree with the premise, that was written so pretentiously I couldn't finish it.

>>9472890
>professional wrestling
Sports Entertainment*

>>9472984
Log off, Vince

>>9472978

Maybe I've had my head held under for too long by critical theory classes but that wasn't bad at all, desu

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>>9472890
Definitely. I like NJPW because most of the feuds make sense and there's a very old school sense of ring-psychology which you don't really see in the WWE anymore.

>>9472966

I like Barthes, but I've always kind of hated this essay. While I agree with his premise, he takes 10 pages to say: "We like wrestling because it's a big visual spectacle where get to cheer for the hero and feel good when he beats up the villain"

https://tomandmikepresentt.wordpress.com/2011/06/15/armchair-theories-a-macbeth-wrestling-adaptation/

What do you guys think of this?

Wrestling is the quintessential American art form and I mean that in the best possible sense.

>>9473524
Ahead of film?

Also, you have to wonder, would pro wrestling being taken more seriously by academics make it less appealing to its main audience?

>>9473611
I wouldn't say film is quintessentially American

>>9473153
this dude knows whats up.

>>9472899
>*homoerotic poem