Post by tap on Dec 25, 2007 12:54:58 GMT -5
www.amazon.com/Steel-Chair-Head-Professional-Wrestling/dp/0822334380
I figured that some people would be interested in picking up this book. It's more of a sociological and semiotic look at professional wrestling, how it functions, its audiences, their demographics, the economy of professional wrestling, how professional wrestling is cultural, political, mythic, etc.
Chapters, for anyone's interest:
Nicholas Sammond- Introduction: A Brief and Unnecessary Defense of Professional Wrestling
Roland Barthes- The World of Wrestling
Henry Jenkins III- "Never Trust a Snake": WWF Wrestling as Masculine Melodrama
Sharon Mazer- "Real Wrestling"/"Real" Life
Carlos Monsivais- The Hour of the Mask as Protagonist: El Santo versus the Skeptics on the Subject of Myth
Heather Levi- The Mask of the Luchador: Wrestling, Politics, and Identity in Mexico
Nicholas Sammond- Squaring the Family Circle: WWF Smackdown Assaults the Social Body
Catherine Salmon and Susan Clerc- "Ladies Love Wrestling, Too": Female Wrestling Fans Online
Laurence de Garis- The "Logic" of Professional Wrestling
Lucia Rahilly- Is "Raw" War? Professional Wrestling as Popular S/M Narrative
Phillip Serrato- Not Quite Heroes: Race, Masculinity, and Latino Professional Wrestlers
Douglas Battema and Philip Sewell- Trading in Masculinity: Muscles, Money, and the Market Discourse in the WWF
Henry Jenkins III- Afterword, Part I: Wrestling with Theory, Grappling with Politics
Henry Jenkins IV- Afterword, Part II: Growing Up and Growing More Risque
I figured that some people would be interested in picking up this book. It's more of a sociological and semiotic look at professional wrestling, how it functions, its audiences, their demographics, the economy of professional wrestling, how professional wrestling is cultural, political, mythic, etc.
Chapters, for anyone's interest:
Nicholas Sammond- Introduction: A Brief and Unnecessary Defense of Professional Wrestling
Roland Barthes- The World of Wrestling
Henry Jenkins III- "Never Trust a Snake": WWF Wrestling as Masculine Melodrama
Sharon Mazer- "Real Wrestling"/"Real" Life
Carlos Monsivais- The Hour of the Mask as Protagonist: El Santo versus the Skeptics on the Subject of Myth
Heather Levi- The Mask of the Luchador: Wrestling, Politics, and Identity in Mexico
Nicholas Sammond- Squaring the Family Circle: WWF Smackdown Assaults the Social Body
Catherine Salmon and Susan Clerc- "Ladies Love Wrestling, Too": Female Wrestling Fans Online
Laurence de Garis- The "Logic" of Professional Wrestling
Lucia Rahilly- Is "Raw" War? Professional Wrestling as Popular S/M Narrative
Phillip Serrato- Not Quite Heroes: Race, Masculinity, and Latino Professional Wrestlers
Douglas Battema and Philip Sewell- Trading in Masculinity: Muscles, Money, and the Market Discourse in the WWF
Henry Jenkins III- Afterword, Part I: Wrestling with Theory, Grappling with Politics
Henry Jenkins IV- Afterword, Part II: Growing Up and Growing More Risque