Convergent wrestling: participatory culture, transmedia storytelling, and intertextuality in the squared circle (1st)

This volume examines how the current era of 'convergence' has affected, and is reflected in, the world of professional wrestling, which combines several different genres, including drama, action, comedy, horror, science fiction and even romance.

Professional wrestling's business practices exist at the intersection of bottom-up fan-centric strategies and strict top-down corporate control.

Meanwhile, the wrestlers themselves combine aspects of carnival hucksters, actors/actresses, comedians, superheroes, martial artists, or stuntmen, and the narratives consist of everything from social critique to geopolitical allegories, and from soap opera melodramas to stereotyped exploitation.