Presentations

These presentations represent work by PWSA contributors as they lecture, present emerging scholarship, and offer commentary on wrestling-related media.

While we encourage you to enjoy and work with these ideas, remember these may be works-in-process. Please check with the contributors to see if further developments, including publication, has occurred.

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The Ultimate Warrior: WWE’s Rhetorical Revision of Collective Memory through Transmedia Storytelling

Christopher A. MedjeskyPopular Culture/American Culture Studies Association: March 29, 2018

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCf7PLfciTE&w=420&h=236]


What It Takes to Become a WWE Diva

Kathie Kallevig – Midwest Popular Culture/American Culture Studies Association: November 17,2017

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeQRPn1sHpE&w=420&h=236]


“Changing Its Trunks and Boots for Ties and Suits”: A Case Study of How the WWE Changed with the Times for Corporate Social Responsibility

Jack V. Karlis – Midwest Popular Culture/American Culture Studies Association: November 17,2017

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjabkNCMdfM&w=420&h=236]