| Description |
1 online resource (365 pages) : illustrations |
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e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
The People's collection of cultural studies essays on wrestling |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Wrestling.
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Wrestling -- Social aspects
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Wrestling
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- Wrestling.
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Wrestling
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Wrestling -- Social aspects
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Ringen
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Soziologie
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sammond, Nicholas, 1960- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780822386827 |
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0822386828 |
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