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Steel Chair to the Head: The Pleasure and Pain of Professional Wrestling » (1st Edition)
Authors: Nicholas Sammond (Editor), Roland Barthes (Contribution by), Henry Jenkins III (Contribution by), Sharon Mazer (Contribution by), Carlos Monsivais
ISBN-13: 9780822334385, ISBN-10: 0822334380
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Duke University Press
Date Published: January 2005
Edition: 1st Edition
Author Biography: Nicholas Sammond
Nicholas Sammond is Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Babes in Tomorrowland: Walt Disney and the Making of the American Child, 1930–1960, also published by Duke University Press.
Book Synopsis
The People’s collection of cultural studies essays on wrestling.
Table of Contents
| Introduction : a brief and unnecessary defense of professional wrestling | 1 | |
| The world of wrestling | 23 | |
| "Never trust a snake" : WWF Wrestling as masculine melodrama | 33 | |
| "Real wrestling"/"real" life | 67 | |
| The hour of the mask as protagonist : El Santo versus the skeptics on the subject of myth | 88 | |
| The mask of the Luchador : wrestling, politics, and identity in Mexico | 96 | |
| Squaring the family circle : WWF Smackdown assaults the social body | 132 | |
| "Ladies love wrestling, too" : female wrestling fans online | 167 | |
| The "logic" of professional wrestling | 192 | |
| Is RAW war? : professional wrestling as popular S/M narrative | 213 | |
| Not quite heroes : race, masculinity, and Latino professional wrestlers | 232 | |
| Trading in masculinity : muscles, money, and market discourse in the WWF | 260 | |
| Afterword, part I : wrestling with theory, grappling with politics | 295 | |
| Afterword, part II : growing up and growing more risque | 317 |
Subjects
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