Matthew Ferrari / University of Massachusetts - Amherst
From “Play to Display”: Parkour as Media-Mimetics, or Nature Reclamation?
Dark Techné in Sports Advertisements
Matthew Ferrari / University of Massachusetts
Reading Narrative Excess in MMA
Matthew Ferrari / University of Massachusetts-Amherst
An analysis of the psychodynamics of televised mixed martial arts and “pauses” as narrative excess
Read morePow! Ooomph! Skadoosh!: Combat Aesthetics and Intermediality
Matthew Ferrari / University of Massachusetts-Amherst
An examination of combat aesthetics and the transmedia proliferation of mixed martial arts.
Read morePrimal Giggles: Thoughts on Reality Television’s Recent Pieties and Parodies of the “Masculine Primitive”
Matthew Ferrari / University of Massachusetts-Amherst
A look at the subgenre of reality televsion based on quasi-ethnographic adventuring and the male primitive.
Read moreMixed Martial Arts’ Burgeoning Wild Kingdom
Matthew Ferrari / University of Massachusetts-Amherst
A look at masculinity and the primal in the Ultimate Fighting Championship and mixed martial arts.
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