scholarly journals Face vastaan Heel

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 57-73
Author(s):  
Jyrki Korpua ◽  
Juho Longi

Artikkeli käsittelee stereotyyppisen ”hyvän” ja ”pahan” kamppailua yhdysvaltalaisessa televisioidussa showpainissa. Showpaini on yleisöviihdettä, jossa kamppailulajit yhdistyvät teatterimaiseen esiintymiseen käsikirjoitetuissa ja ennalta päätetyissä tarinoissa. Showpaini on suureellista spektaakkelia, jossa käytetään liioiteltuja reaktioita.Tämä artikkeli käsittelee hyvän ja pahan kohtaamista showpainissa yhden erityisen kuvaavan tapausesimerkin kautta, joka on valikoitu yhdysvaltalaisesta WWE-showpainiorganisaatiosta. Tapausesimerkissä ”hyvä” (face) eli Shinsuke Nakamura kohtasi ”pahan” (heel) eli Samoa Joen sarjassa otteluita, jotka televisioitiin suurelle yleisölle ja joihin liittyi runsaasti oheismateriaalia Internetissä. Artikkelimme tarkastelee, kuinka tämä spektaakkelinen kokonaisuus rakennettiin tarinallisesti näistä elementeistä. Kysymme, miten ja millaisista osista televisioitu showpaininarratiivi rakentuu.Avainsanat: showpaini, mediaspektaakkeli, urheiluviihde, face, heel.Face versus Heel. Battle of Good and Evil in American televised professional wrestlingThe article investigates the stereotyped battle of “good” versus “bad” on televised American professional wrestling. Professional wrestling, or “Sports Entertainment” as WWE-promotion calls it, is an extremely popular audiovisual spectacle, which combines elements of sports, martial arts, theatre, and dance performances. It also uses spectacular theatrical reactions and audience participation on competitions, where outcomes are (usually) predetermined.Demonstrating a structural analysis of the narrative, the article focuses on the construction of a professional wrestling spectacle by doing a case study on a series of matches from WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment), where Shinsuke Nakamura, a stereotyped “good” wrestler (so-called Face) fought against Samoa Joe, a stereotyped “evil” wrestler (so-called Heel).Keywords: professional wrestling, show wrestling, media spectacle, sports entertainment, face, heel

Author(s):  
Stephen McCreery ◽  
Brian C Britt ◽  
Jameson Hayes

Social television (TV) engagement has become more commonplace as viewers seek alternative ways of engaging with TV shows and other viewers. This is especially true with televised professional wrestling; 119,506 tweets were analyzed using social network analysis during the four World Wrestling Entertainment telecasts. Results show that brand-affiliated users primarily interact among one another and not the fans themselves, despite fans reaching out to the brand, resulting in significant social stratification and low interactivity within the community. The findings suggest that when fans think they are able to join and contribute to the brand’s ongoing conversation, those fans might still be highly motivated to communicate with the brand, even if the brand does not reciprocate.


1978 ◽  
Vol 192 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-92
Author(s):  
B. B. Hundy ◽  
S. Broadstock

The use of aluminium alloy instead of steel for the structural components of a 32 ton articulated lorry has been examined. The probable manufacturing difficulties have been assessed and shown to be minimal. The savings in weight possible by using aluminium have been calculated from a structural analysis of the cab, tractor chassis and trailer and from this and an assessment of the manufacturing processes the extra cost of manufacturing in aluminium has been determined. A typical case study shows that this extra cost can be easily recovered by utilising the increased load capacity of the vehicle during the first few years of its life.


2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (10) ◽  
pp. 05018008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Koji Matsumoto ◽  
Carlos Arturo Linan Panting ◽  
Nuntikorn Kitratporn ◽  
Wataru Takeuchi ◽  
Kohei Nagai ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
pp. 174997552094785
Author(s):  
L. Lynda Harling Stalker ◽  
Patricia Cormack

This thematic case study explores international, national, and local media coverage of a conflict between Barb Reddick, a rural, working-class, African-Nova Scotian woman, and her nephew over the ownership of a winning ‘Chase the Ace’ lottery ticket. Beginning from general media valuation of lottery winners, and Canadian coverage of the Nova Scotia CTA lottery ‘craze’, we find when Reddick goes off script as loving aunt she is pathologized and degraded in a dramatic reversal from soft to hard news story. Reddick’s habitus and trust in journalists to support her counternarrative became the dramatic content of media spectacle-making – what we call a ‘spectacle of silencing’ – as well as her deviance from Canadian white rurality, and class and gender norms. Rather than mere ‘misrepresentation’ of minorities, we conclude that the dynamics of counternarrative struggle are embedded in reportage itself as spectacle, reproducing the legitimacy and authority of journalistic institutions through a symbolic violence of consensus making.


2020 ◽  
Vol 156 ◽  
pp. 05021
Author(s):  
Jati Sunaryati ◽  
Nidiasari ◽  
Alfadian

Performance-Based Plastic Design (PBPD) is a structural analysis that can be used to review structural performance. This method is increasingly popular to be used in the earthquake-prone area. This method is based on energy method that can be applied to steel or concrete structures. Meanwhile, Indonesia has already SNI 1726:2102 to be used as a guide in designing the thrust load to review the level of structural performance. Both of these things need to be used as a reference in areas that were initially considered safe from the earthquake but based on the development of earthquake micro zonation maps, it is very possible to become potential areas that also become earthquake regions. For this reason, the case of the structure that was built in the Pekanbaru area was taken. From the analyses of structural behavior, the structure that applied PBPD has greater displacement than the structures that apply the thrust load of SNI 1726: 2012. The percentage of displacement that occurred was 8-37 %. Based on performance analysis, the structures according to PBPD shows a better level of performance to the application of SNI 1726: 2012 thrust load.


Author(s):  
Sharon Mazer

More than a vulgar parody of “real” sport, professional wrestling is a sophisticated theatricalized representation of the transgressive, violent urges generally repressed in everyday life. More than a staged fight between representatives of good and evil, at its heart is a Rabelaisian carnival, an invitation to every participant to share in expressions of excess and to celebrate the desire for, if not the acting upon, transgression against whatever cultural values are perceived as dominant and/or oppressive in everyday life. More than an elaborate con game in which spectators are seduced into accepting the illusion of “real” violence, wrestling activates and authorizes its audiences, makes them complicit in the performance. Matches can be described in conventional dramatic terms that remain consistent whether in Madison Square Garden or Gleason’s Arena. Because the fight is fixed, the contest is for heat—for the fans’ attention—rather than for victory per se.


2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evan L. Frederick ◽  
Galen E. Clavio ◽  
Lauren M. Burch ◽  
Matthew H. Zimmerman

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