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Steel chair to the head : the pleasure and pain of professional wrestling / edited by Nicholas Sammond.
| Other author | Sammond, Nicholas, 1960- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Durham : Duke University Press, 2005. |
| Description | 365 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2004014274 |
| ISBN | 0822334038 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0822334380 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | GV1195 .S743 2005 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |