""Steel Chair to the Head" is an exceptionally smart and well-crafted collection that will be a valuable resource for popular culture scholars of all stripes. From start to finish, there's not a weak essay in the book. One of the best anthologies--on popular culture or anything else--that I've read in a long time."--Gilbert B. Rodman, author of "Elvis after Elvis: The Posthumous Career of a Living Legend"
""Steel Chair to the Head" is an exceptionally smart and well-crafted collection that will be a valuable resource for popular culture scholars of all stripes. From start to finish, there's not a weak essay in the book. One of the best anthologies--on popular culture or anything else--that I've read in a long time."--Gilbert B. Rodman, author of "Elvis after Elvis: The Posthumous Career of a Living Legend"
Acknowledgments ix Introduction: A Brief and Unnecessary Defense of Professional Wrestling / Nicholas Sammond 1 The World of Wrestling / Roland Barthes 23 "Never Trust a Snake": WWF Wrestling as Masculine Melodrama / Henry Jenkins III 33 "Real Wrestling"/ "Real" Life / Sharon Mazer 67 The Hour of the Mask as Protagonist: El Santo versus the Skeptics on the Subject of Myth / Carlos Monsivais 88 The Mask of the Luchador: Wrestling, Politics, and Identity in Mexico / Heather Levi 96 Squaring the Family Circle: WWF Smackdown Assaults the Social Body / Nicholas Sammond 132 "Ladies Love Wrestling, Too": Female Wrestling Fans Online / Catherine Salmon and Susan Clerc 167 The "Logic" of Professional Wrestling / Laurence De Garis 192 Is RAW War? Professional Wrestling as Popular S/M Narrative / Lucia Rahilly 213 Not Quite Heroes: Race, Masculinity, and Latino Professional Wrestlers / Phillip Serrato 232 Trading in Masculinity: Muscles, Money and Market Discourse in the WWF / Douglas Battema and Philip Sewell 260 Afterword, Part II: Growing up and Growing More Risqué / Henry Jenkins IV 317 Glossary 343 Contributors 345 Index 347
Acknowledgments ix Introduction: A Brief and Unnecessary Defense of Professional Wrestling / Nicholas Sammond 1 The World of Wrestling / Roland Barthes 23 "Never Trust a Snake": WWF Wrestling as Masculine Melodrama / Henry Jenkins III 33 "Real Wrestling"/ "Real" Life / Sharon Mazer 67 The Hour of the Mask as Protagonist: El Santo versus the Skeptics on the Subject of Myth / Carlos Monsivais 88 The Mask of the Luchador: Wrestling, Politics, and Identity in Mexico / Heather Levi 96 Squaring the Family Circle: WWF Smackdown Assaults the Social Body / Nicholas Sammond 132 "Ladies Love Wrestling, Too": Female Wrestling Fans Online / Catherine Salmon and Susan Clerc 167 The "Logic" of Professional Wrestling / Laurence De Garis 192 Is RAW War? Professional Wrestling as Popular S/M Narrative / Lucia Rahilly 213 Not Quite Heroes: Race, Masculinity, and Latino Professional Wrestlers / Phillip Serrato 232 Trading in Masculinity: Muscles, Money and Market Discourse in the WWF / Douglas Battema and Philip Sewell 260 Afterword, Part II: Growing up and Growing More Risqué / Henry Jenkins IV 317 Glossary 343 Contributors 345 Index 347
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