Nicholas Sammond

Steel Chair to the Head

The Pleasure and Pain of Professional Wrestling
Herausgeber: Sammond, Nicholas

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Produktbeschreibung

""Steel Chair to the Head" is an exceptionally smart and well-crafted collection that will be a valuable resource for popular culture scholars of all stripes. From start to finish, there's not a weak essay in the book. One of the best anthologies--on popular culture or anything else--that I've read in a long time."--Gilbert B. Rodman, author of "Elvis after Elvis: The Posthumous Career of a Living Legend"

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 225mm x 165mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9780822334385
• ISBN-10: 0822334380
• Artikelnr.: 21465387

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Sammond, ed.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: A Brief and Unnecessary Defense of Professional Wrestling /
Nicholas Sammond 1
The World of Wrestling / Roland Barthes 23
"Never Trust a Snake": WWF Wrestling as Masculine Melodrama / Henry Jenkins
III 33
"Real Wrestling"/ "Real" Life / Sharon Mazer 67
The Hour of the Mask as Protagonist: El Santo versus the Skeptics on the
Subject of Myth / Carlos Monsivais 88
The Mask of the Luchador: Wrestling, Politics, and Identity in Mexico /
Heather Levi 96
Squaring the Family Circle: WWF Smackdown Assaults the Social Body /
Nicholas Sammond 132
"Ladies Love Wrestling, Too": Female Wrestling Fans Online / Catherine
Salmon and Susan Clerc 167
The "Logic" of Professional Wrestling / Laurence De Garis 192
Is RAW War? Professional Wrestling as Popular S/M Narrative / Lucia Rahilly
213
Not Quite Heroes: Race, Masculinity, and Latino Professional Wrestlers /
Phillip Serrato 232
Trading in Masculinity: Muscles, Money and Market Discourse in the WWF /
Douglas Battema and Philip Sewell 260
Afterword, Part II: Growing up and Growing More Risqué / Henry Jenkins IV
317
Glossary 343
Contributors 345
Index 347