Nicholas SammondSteel Chair to the Head
The Pleasure and Pain of Professional Wrestling
Herausgeber: Sammond, Nicholas
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.
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
