""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"
""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"Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Nicholas Sammond is Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Babes in Tomorrowland: Walt Disney and the Making of the American Child, 1930–1960, also published by Duke University Press.
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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
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
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