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Steel Chair to the Head : The Pleasure and Pain of Professional Wrestling /
The People's collection of cultural studies essays on wrestling.
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Durham [NC] :
Duke University Press,
2005.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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 risque / Henry Jenkins IV.