Pro Wrestling Is...

Matt Winter Watson
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A series of entertaining audio essays in which we’ll explore media and cultural theory through the lens of professional wrestling.

Episodes

  1. Episode 1

    Low Culture?

    In this first episode we define culture, explore the different types of culture according to cultural theorists, get into it with Marxism and discuss why Stone Cold Steve Austin represented the proletariat. Thank you for exploring this episode. If you have any thoughts, feelings, corrections, observations, suggestions or recommendations, please get in touch at wrestlingismedia@gmail.com or follow me on Twitter @MattWWriter and reach out there. Sources - Gans, H (1999). Popular Culture and High Culture. 2nd ed. New York City: Basic Books. 115. M, Horkeimer. T, Adorno (1974). Dialectic of Enlightenment. 2nd ed. New York City: Herder and Herder. 129. Sounds - Main Theme Gentle Breeze by Purrple Cat | https://purrplecat.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US Additional music by Scott Buckley – www.scottbuckley.com.au All sounds from WWE programming are remixed and edited for the purposes of education and review. This podcast is not monetized. onsuo 2021 Find out more at https://pro-wrestling-is.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

    1 hr

  2. Episode 2

    a Hidden Code?

    Lets explore signs, signifiers and hidden cultural myths. Why is wrestling the perfect example of this code? Who was Roland Barthes? And why was he the first smark? Thank you for exploring this episode. If you have any thoughts, feelings, corrections, observations, suggestions or recommendations, please get in touch at wrestlingismedia@gmail.com or follow me on Twitter @MattWWriter and reach out there. Sources - Barthes, R (1957). Mythologies. France: Les Lettres Novelles. 10-24 - http://web.mit.edu/21l.432/www/readings/Barthes_WorldOfWrestling.pdf AEW Dynamite (11/8/20) - Jon Moxley promo before contract signing with Kenny Omega Sounds - Main Theme Gentle Breeze by Purrple Cat | https://purrplecat.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US Additional music by Scott Buckley – www.scottbuckley.com.au All sounds from WWE programming are remixed and edited for the purposes of education and review. This podcast is not monetized. Find out more at https://pro-wrestling-is.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

    1h 12m

  3. Episode 3

    Metamodern?

    How becoming Freshly Squeezed can fix the stagnation in wrestling, society and culture. Mapping cultural eras and modes of thinking onto the timeline of wrestling history, before revealing the new, emerging culture of our times. Thank you for exploring this episode. If you have any thoughts, feelings, corrections, observations, suggestions or recommendations, please get in touch at wrestlingismedia@gmail.com or follow me on Twitter @MattWWriter and reach out there. Sounds - Main Theme Gentle Breeze by Purrple Cat | https://purrplecat.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US Additional music by Scott Buckley – www.scottbuckley.com.au All sounds from WWE programming are remixed and edited for the purposes of education and review. This podcast is not monetized. onsuo 2021 Find out more at https://pro-wrestling-is.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

    1h 12m

  4. Bonus

    The World of Wrestling - Roland Barthes

    A full reading of Roland Barthes' essay 'The World of Wrestling' from his 1957 book, Mythologies. In it, he performs a semiotic analysis of the performance of all-in wrestling in France in the 1950s. This podcast is NOT monetized, and the essay is read verbatim for the purpose of public discourse. Wrestling is for the people, therefore this essay is for the people - Roland Barthes would oblige. Thank you for exploring this episode. If you have any thoughts, feelings, corrections, observations, suggestions or recommendations for future episodes, please get in touch at wrestlingismedia@gmail.com or follow me on Twitter @MattWWriter and reach out there. Find out more at https://pro-wrestling-is.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

  • 4 Episodes

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A series of entertaining audio essays in which we’ll explore media and cultural theory through the lens of professional wrestling.

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  • Creator
    Matt Winter Watson
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    4
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © onsuo
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    Pro Wrestling Is...