Steel chair to the head : the pleasure and pain of professional wrestling / edited by Nicholas Sammond.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sammond, Nicholas, 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wrestling.

Wrestling--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

365 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2005.

Summary:

A multifaceted cultural look at the popular phenomenon of pro wrestling.

Contents:

Introduction: a brief and unnecessary defense of professional wrestling / Nicholas Sammond

The world of wrestling / Roland Barthes

"Never trust a snake": WWF wrestling as masculine melodrama / Henry Jenkins III

"Real wrestling"/"real" life / Sharon Mazer

The hour of the mask as protagonist: El Santo versus the skeptics on the subject of myth / Carlos Monsiváis

The mask of the Luchador: wrestling, politics, and identity in Mexico / Heather Levi

Squaring the family circle: WWF smackdown assaults the social body / Nicholas Sammond

"Ladies love wrestling too": female wrestling fans online / Catherine Salmon and Susan Clerc

The "logic" of professional wrestling / Laurence De Garis

Is raw war?: professional wrestling as popular s/m narrative

Lucia Rahilly

Not quite heroes: race, masculinity, and Latino professional wrestlers / Phillip Serrato

Trading in masculinity: muscles, money, and market discourse in the WWF / Douglas Battema and Philip Sewell

Afterword, part I: wrestling with theory, grappling with politics / Henry Jenkins III

Afterword, Part II: growing up and growing more risqué / Henry Jenkins IV.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0822334038

0822334380

OCLC:

55729888