Steel Chair To The Head : The Pleasure And Pain Of Professional Wrestling

Acknowledgments ix NICHOLAS SAMMOND Introduction: A Brief and Unnecessary Defense of Professional Wrestling 1(22) ROLAND BARTHES The World of Wrestling 23(10) HENRY JENKINS III "Never Trust a Snake": WWF Wrestling as Masculine Melodrama 33(34) SHARON MAZER "Real Wrestling"/"Real" Life 67(21) CARLOS MONSIVAIS The Hour of the Mask as Protagonist: El Santo versus the Skeptics on the Subject of Myth 88(8) HEATHER LEVI The Mask of the Luchador: Wrestling, Politics, and Identity in Mexico 96(36) NICHOLAS SAMMOND Squaring the Family Circle: WWF Smackdown Assaults the Social Body 132(35) CATHERINE SALMON AND SUSAN CLERC "Ladies Love Wrestling, Too": Female Wrestling Fans Online 167(25) LAURENCE DE GARIS The "Logic" of Professional Wrestling 192(21) LUCIA RAHILLY Is RAW War? Professional Wrestling as Popular S/M Narrative 213(19) PHILLIP SERRATO Not Quite Heroes: Race, Masculinity, and Latino Professional Wrestlers 232(28) DOUGLAS BATTEMA AND PHILIP SEWELL Trading in Masculinity: Muscles, Money, and Market Discourse in the WWF 260(35) HENRY JENKINS III Afterword, Part I: Wrestling with Theory, Grappling with Politics 295(22) HENRY JENKINS IV Afterword, Part II: Growing up and Growing More Risqué 317(26) Glossary 343(2) Contributors 345(2) Index 347