Wrestling
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[edit] Introduction
World War II had changed some perceptions of gender roles for the lower classes. According to John Fiske, the role of the audience was reconceptualized as popular culture began to take shape and form in a commercial form. It brought with it such things as professional wrestling with a regular audience that trended more female than male. Fiske cites sources which put the female audience at 60% attendance of live events and roughly 90% of the audience for televised audience. Like music fen that were to follow them and science fiction fen operating during the same time period, this group of fen was actively producing fan created material and fanzines. Fiske notes that among the things they were creating were poems, based on the wrestling they were watching. Wrestling was helped in a large part by television, a technology being embraced by the middle class, and by live performances at venues such as Comiskey Park and Madison Square Garden.
[edit] The Sport
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[edit] The Athletes
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[edit] Terminology
Below is a partial list of terms used in the wrestling fan fiction community.
- Cliquefic is a story involving the members of the clique (Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, Hunter Hearst Helmsley (real name: Paul Levesque), X-Pac (real name: Sean Waltman) and Shawn Michaels (real name: Michael Hickenbottom).
- Kliqfic is a story involving the members of the clique.
[edit] Fanworks policy and history
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[edit] Timeline
Below is a partial timeline of events that took place in the wrestling fan fiction community.
- On October 24, 2000, the mailing list AmateurWrestlingFanAddicts was created. [1]
- On November 21, 2001, the mailing list wrestling was created. [2]
- On September 22, 2003, the LiveJournal community allfandomfics was founded. [3] It would host Angel, Battlestar Galatica, Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, Dante's Cove, Dark Angel, Doctor Who, Eureka, Firefly, Gilmore Girls, Harry Potter, New Tricks Queer as Folk, Star Wars, Stargate, Supernatural, Torchwood, Tru Calling, Wrestling fan fiction along with additional fandoms.
[edit] Kerfluffles
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[edit] Influential fanworks
[edit] Art
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[edit] Fic
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[edit] Vids
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[edit] Fandom members
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[edit] Fandom size
There are 201 stories on FanDomination.Net as of October 10, 2006.
As of December 18, 2007, wrestling had 136 members [4], and AmateurWrestlingFanAddicts had 2,636 members. On that same date, the wrestling spot on FanPop had 64 members. [5]
[edit] External Links
[edit] Sources
Below is a partial list of articles and academic sources to help you continue to learn about this community.
- Fiske, John. Researching Historical Broadcast Audiences: Female Fandom of Professional Wrestling, 1945-1960. Diss. Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 1997. 5 Apr. 2006.
- Nuttall, K. M. (2002). Wrestling the "net" an investigation into the issues of identity and community facing pro-wrestling fans in cyberspace. Thesis (M.A. Screen and Media Studies)--University of Waikato, 2002.
- Trask, J.-P. V. (2006). Working the crowd the powers and pleasures of wrestling fandom. Thesis (M.A. in Mass Communication)--University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee, 2006.
