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The Resource Steel chair to the head : the pleasure and pain of professional wrestling, edited by Nicholas Sammond

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

Label
Steel chair to the head : the pleasure and pain of professional wrestling
Title
Steel chair to the head
Title remainder
the pleasure and pain of professional wrestling
Statement of responsibility
edited by Nicholas Sammond
Title variation
Pleasure and pain of professional wrestling
Contributor
Subject
Language
eng
Cataloging source
DLC
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
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1960-
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Sammond, Nicholas
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Wrestling
  • Wrestling
Label
Steel chair to the head : the pleasure and pain of professional wrestling, edited by Nicholas Sammond
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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
Control code
55729888
Dimensions
23 cm
Extent
365 pages
Isbn
9780822334385
Lccn
2004014274
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
Label
Steel chair to the head : the pleasure and pain of professional wrestling, edited by Nicholas Sammond
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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
Control code
55729888
Dimensions
23 cm
Extent
365 pages
Isbn
9780822334385
Lccn
2004014274
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations

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