Team C reading questions. Responses of 250-300 words are due by 9PM on Wednesday 12\/3 as an original post. Don\u2019t forget a creative title for your post.<\/p>\n
1. Imagine the habitus<\/em> of a fan of World Wrestling Entertainment. What about the WWE suggests such a habitus<\/em>? What is the WWE\u2019s cultural capital in your opinion and experience? P. S. If you can\u2019t remember what habitus<\/em> is, look it up in Carl Wilson\u2019s book. Team C reading questions. Responses of 250-300 words are due by 9PM on Wednesday 12\/3 as an original post. Don\u2019t forget a creative title for your post. 1. Imagine the habitus of a fan of World Wrestling Entertainment. What about the WWE suggests such a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":871,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/guiltypleasures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/guiltypleasures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/guiltypleasures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/guiltypleasures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/871"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/guiltypleasures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/guiltypleasures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":652,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/guiltypleasures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions\/652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/guiltypleasures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/guiltypleasures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/guiltypleasures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2. Barthes\u2019 essay on wrestling states that \u201cThe public is completely uninterested in knowing whether the contest is rigged or not, and rightly so; it abandons itself to the primary virtue of the spectacle, which is to abolish all motives and all consequences: what matters is not what it thinks but what it sees\u201d (15). Put this analysis into your own words. Then, compare it to the story Shoemaker tells in the introduction about the journalist and the cancelled wrestling match. Are Shoemaker and Barthes on the same page about the appeal of wrestling?
\n3. Compare the Junkyard Dog with Cassandro. How did each negotiate his position within the world of wrestling? Do they inhabit similarly stereotyped roles, or do they exceed these stereotypes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"