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Manchester Metropolitan University: Manchester, GB

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Works (25)

Participatory Culture Wars Controversy, Conflict, and Complicity in Fandom

2025 | Book
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ISBN: 9781685970086
Contributors: Simone Driessen; Bethan Jones; Benjamin Litherland
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Manchester Metropolitan University

From fan citizenship to ‘fanspiracies’: Politics and participatory cultures in times of crisis?

Convergence: the international journal of research into new media technologies
2024-02-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1177/13548565241236005
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Part of ISSN: 1354-8565
Contributors: S Driessen; B Jones; Benjamin Litherland
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Manchester Metropolitan University

Notes on Kayfabe

Pro Wrestling Studies Journal
2022-03-01 | Journal article
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315999
Contributors: Benjamin Litherland
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Manchester Metropolitan University

Scholarly Grappling: Collaborative 'Work' in the Study of Professional Wrestling

Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism
2021 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1353/dtc.2021.0040
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316005
Contributors: Benjamin Litherland; Tom Phillips; Claire Warden
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Manchester Metropolitan University

Ludosity, Radical Contextualism, and a New Games History: Pleasure, Truth, and Deception in the Mid-20th-Century London Arcade

Games and Culture: a journal of interactive media
2021-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1177/1555412019875013
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315912

Part of ISSN: 1555-4120
Contributors: Benjamin Litherland
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Is this progress? Punk, participation and the (potential) radical politics of British professional wrestling

2020-11-15 | Book chapter
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316001

Part of ISBN: 9780857427946
Contributors: T Phillips; C Warden; Benjamin Litherland
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Manchester Metropolitan University

Girls being Rey: ethical cultural consumption, families and popular feminism

Cultural Studies
2020-07-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2019.1656759
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315913

Part of ISSN: 0950-2386
Contributors: Rachel Wood; Benjamin Litherland; Elizabeth Reed
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Manchester Metropolitan University
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"Hollywood" Hulk Hogan: Stardom, Synergy, and Field Migration

Cinema Journal
2019 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1353/cj.2019.0056
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316000
Contributors: Holly Chard; Benjamin Litherland
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Manchester Metropolitan University

Historia Ludens The Playing Historian

2019-08-30 | Book
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316002

ISBN: 9781000693317
Contributors: Alexander von Lünen; Katherine J Lewis; Benjamin Litherland; Pat Cullum
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Manchester Metropolitan University

Critical feminist hope: the encounter of neoliberalism and popular feminism in<i>WWE 24: Women’s Evolution</i>

Feminist Media Studies
2018-09-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2017.1393762
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315907

Part of ISSN: 1468-0777
Contributors: Rachel Wood; Benjamin Litherland
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Manchester Metropolitan University
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Wrestling in Britain: Sporting Entertainments, Celebrity and Audiences

2018-02-01 | Book
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315917
Contributors: Benjamin Litherland
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Manchester Metropolitan University

Sport’s Relationship with Other Leisure Industries Historical Perspectives

2017-01-12 | Book
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316004

ISBN: 9781315404684
Contributors: Benjamin Litherland; Dion Georgiou
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Manchester Metropolitan University

The Bruising Business: Pugilism, Commercial Culture, and Celebrity, 1700--1750

2016 | Book chapter
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Benjamin Litherland

Introduction: Sport's Relationship with Other Leisure Industries II:‘Products, Imagery and Spectacle’

Sport in History
2015 | Journal article
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Benjamin Litherland

Sporting Entertainments, Discarded Possibilities and the Case of Football as a Variety Sport, 1905--1906

Sport in History
2015 | Journal article
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Benjamin Litherland

Introduction: Sport's Relationship with Other Leisure Industries II: 'Products, Imagery and Spectacle'

Sport in History
2015-07-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2015.1080755
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315908

Part of ISSN: 1746-0263
Contributors: D Georgiou; Benjamin Litherland
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Manchester Metropolitan University
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Sporting Entertainments, Discarded Possibilities and the Case of Football as a Variety Sport, 1905-1906

Sport in History
2015-07-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2015.1084526
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315906

Part of ISSN: 1746-0263
Contributors: Benjamin Litherland
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Manchester Metropolitan University
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Breaking kayfabe is easy, cheap and never entertaining: Twitter rivalries in professional wrestling

Celebrity Studies
2014 | Journal article
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Benjamin Litherland

Introduction: Sport's Relationship with Other Leisure Industries--Sites of Interaction

Sport in History
2014 | Journal article
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Benjamin Litherland

The field and the stage pugilism, combat performance and professional wrestling in England: 1700--1980

2014 | Dissertation or Thesis
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Benjamin Litherland

Breaking kayfabe is easy, cheap and never entertaining: Twitter rivalries in professional wrestling

Celebrity Studies
2014-10-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/19392397.2014.981047
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315910

Part of ISSN: 1939-2397
Contributors: Benjamin Litherland
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Manchester Metropolitan University
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Introduction: Sport's relationship with other leisure industries-sites of interaction

Sport in History
2014-01-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/17460263.2014.924669
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315911

Part of ISSN: 1746-0263
Contributors: D Georgiou; Benjamin Litherland
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Manchester Metropolitan University
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Selling punches: free markets and professional wrestling in the UK, 1986-1993

Journal of Historical Research in Marketing
2012 | Journal article
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Benjamin Litherland

Selling punches: Free markets and professional wrestling in the UK, 1986-1993

Journal of Historical Research in Marketing
2012-01-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1108/17557501211281914
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315909

Part of ISSN: 1755-750X
Contributors: Benjamin Litherland
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Manchester Metropolitan University
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" Whatcha Gonna Do?": Free Markets, Professional Wrestling and Globalisation

2010 | Dissertation or Thesis
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Benjamin Litherland
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