Steel Chair to the Head: The Pleasure and Pain of Professional Wrestling

The antagonists-oiled, shaved, pierced, and tattooed; the glaring lights; the pounding music; the shouting crowd: professional wrestling is at once spectacle, sport, and business. Steel Chair to the Head provides a multifaceted look at the popular phenomenon of pro wrestling. The contributors combin...

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Weitere Verfasser: Carlos, Monsiváis (MitwirkendeR), Catherine, Salmon (MitwirkendeR), Douglas, Battema (MitwirkendeR), Heather, Levi (MitwirkendeR), Henry, Jenkins (MitwirkendeR), Laurence, Garis (MitwirkendeR), Lucia, Rahilly (MitwirkendeR), Nicholas, Sammond (MitwirkendeR), Philip, Sewell (MitwirkendeR), Phillip, Serrato (MitwirkendeR), Roland, Barthes (MitwirkendeR), Sammond, Nicholas (HerausgeberIn), Sharon, Mazer (MitwirkendeR), Susan, Clerc (MitwirkendeR)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Durham Duke University Press [2005]
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Zusammenfassung:The antagonists-oiled, shaved, pierced, and tattooed; the glaring lights; the pounding music; the shouting crowd: professional wrestling is at once spectacle, sport, and business. Steel Chair to the Head provides a multifaceted look at the popular phenomenon of pro wrestling. The contributors combine critical rigor with a deep appreciation of wrestling as a unique cultural form, the latest in a long line of popular performance genres. They examine wrestling as it happens in the ring, is experienced in the stands, is portrayed on television, and is discussed in online chat rooms. In the process, they reveal wrestling as an expression of the contradictions and struggles that shape American culture.The essayists include scholars in anthropology, psychology, film studies, communication studies, and sociology, one of whom used to wrestle professionally. Classic studies of wrestling by Roland Barthes, Carlos Monsiváis, Sharon Mazer, and Henry Jenkins appear alongside original essays. Whether exploring how pro wrestling inflects race, masculinity, and ideas of reality and authenticity; how female fans express their enthusiasm for male wrestlers; or how lucha libre provides insights into Mexican social and political life, Steel Chair to the Head gives due respect to pro wrestling by treating it with the same thorough attention usually reserved for more conventional forms of cultural expression.Contributors. Roland Barthes, Douglas L. Battema, Susan Clerc, Laurence de Garis, Henry Jenkins III, Henry Jenkins IV, Heather Levi, Sharon Mazer, Carlos Monsiváis, Lucia Rahilly, Catherine Salmon, Nicholas Sammond, Phillip Serrat, Philip Sewell
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 12. Dez 2020)
Beschreibung:1 online resource (379 pages) 31 b&w photos
ISBN:9780822386827
DOI:10.1515/9780822386827

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