Professional wrestling : sport and spectacle /
"The book explores professional wrestling as theatrical performance. First published in 1998, this new edition both preserves the original's snapshot of the wrestling scene of the 1980s and 1990s and features an up-to-date perspective on the current state of play"--
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
Published: |
Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2020.
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Edition: | Second edition. |
Series: | Performance Studies Ser.
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Subjects: | |
Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Preface to the second edition
- "Real" wrestling
- What the World is watching
- Learning the game
- Real men don't wear shirts
- From beefcake to cheesecake
- "Real" life
- Postscript
- Epilogue: last works (for now)
- Notes
- Sources
- Index.