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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sammond, Nicholas, 1960-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wrestling.

Wrestling--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (380 p.)

Other Title:

Pleasure and pain of professional wrestling

Place of Publication:

Durham, [NC] : Duke University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The People's collection of cultural studies essays on 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 Monsivais

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 risque / Henry Jenkins IV.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8223-8682-8

OCLC:

220950519