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Steel Chair to the Head: The Pleasure and Pain of Professional Wrestling
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Description for Steel Chair to the Head: The Pleasure and Pain of Professional Wrestling
Paperback. The People's collection of cultural studies essays on wrestling. Editor(s): Sammond, Nicholas. Num Pages: 384 pages, 31 b&w photos. BIC Classification: JFCA; WSTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 157 x 25. Weight in Grams: 534.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Weight
534g
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822334385
SKU
V9780822334385
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Ref
99-1
About Sammond
Nicholas Sammond is Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Babes in Tomorrowland: Walt Disney and the Making of the American Child, 1930–1960, also published by Duke University Press.
Reviews for Steel Chair to the Head: The Pleasure and Pain of Professional Wrestling
“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: ... Read more