MIT OpenCourseWare http ocw mit edu CMS 608 CMS 864 Game Design Spring 2008 For information about citing these materials or our Terms of Use visit http ocw mit edu terms CMS 608 29 April 2008 Notes by Clara Rhee Guest lecturer Sam Ford Wrestling Pro pro wrestling sports entertainment amateur wrestling athleticism wrestling possibly the first form of human competition game pro wrestling not a game but play young animals humans especially enjoy playfighting helps develop hunting skills Social cues wrestling became popular in North American during Civil War traveling carnival circus acts challenging audience members scripting began to pick up the pace and keep audience interest during lengthy matches double cross when a match veers off the script wrestling as a business it s always been about putting butts in seats if people buy tickets it s wrestling but as sport journalist stopped covering radio was good for baseball but not for wrestling the terminology didn t exist TV helped build the vocabulary for a while TV was for bringing in the local audience as cable came around national audience bigger business of franchising growing building of narratives male soap operas
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