Professional Wrestling [August 16-20, 2010]

Monday August 16, 2010 – David Ray Carter (Film critic) presents: A History of Violence: politics, profits, and the changing face of the WWE

Tuesday August 17, 2010 – Cory Barker (Bowling Green State University) presents: Making the scripted more real? Pro wrestling and Twitter

Wednesday August 18, 2010 – Sam Ford (Massachusetts Institute for Technology) presents: "All I Care about Is Me: I’m ‘The Nature Body": The Permeable Boundaries of Pro Wrestling’s Fictional World

Thursday August 19, 2010 – Ari Berenstein (411Mania.com) presents: "The MSG Curtain Call": A Conflation of Front and Backstage in Professional Wrestling

Friday August 20, 2010 – Bryan Alvarez (Wrestling Observer/Figure Four Weekly) presents: History Repeats Itself?: How Wrestling Regards Its Performers

Theme week organized by Shane Toepfer (Georgia State University)

Picture from twodolla via Flickr, used and altered under Creative Commons License permission.