In The Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame: The Storytellers (from the Terrible Turk to Twitter), Greg Oliver and Steven Johnson explain how wrestling's unique take on storytelling has fueled its remarkable expansion. Based on hundreds of interviews and original accounts, Oliver and Johnson describe the imaginative ways in which wrestlers and promoters have used monkeys, murderers, smelt, and wedding cakes to put butts in seats and encourage clicks, likes, and swipes across countless screens. As they trace the evolution of wrestling storytelling, Oliver and Johnson take readers on a winding journey from the New York City Bowery in the 1890s to a Detroit bar in the 1960s to a North Carolina backyard in 2017, meeting up along the way with all manner of scoundrels, do-gooders, scribes, and alligators. Storytellers is a highly readable, heavily researched book that will leave readers with a new appreciation for the fine (and sometimes not-so-fine) art of storytelling.--$cProvided by publisher.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2019.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 796.812
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781773054223 1770415025
- LCCN
- GV1195
- LCCN Item number
- O45 2019eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- NLC
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xx, 284 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)kck00240079 (OCoLC)1100418864 (CaOOCEL)480089
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Title proper/short title
- Storytellers (from the Terrible Turk to Twitter) Storytellers from the Terrible Turk to Twitter
- Transcribing agency
- YDX
Table of Contents
- Front Cover 1
- Table of Contents 7
- Foreword 11
- Introduction 15
- The Origins of Sports Entertainment 21
- Blood, Mud, and Smelt 41
- The Spectacles 61
- Learning the Ropes 82
- Voices of the Game 101
- Sideshows 118
- Adventures in Storytelling 136
- Celebrity Jeopardy 156
- Helping Hands 176
- The Rise and Fall of the Territories 194
- Newsstand 215
- We’re Hardcore 234
- Wrestling with an Attitude 254
- When Wrestling Became Content 272
- Afterword — Fifty Shades of Gray 293
- Photo Section 300
- Photographers 308
- Acknowledgments 311
- Copyright 313
- Back Cover 314
