Professional Wrestling, the Myth, the Mat, and American Popular Culture
Edwin Mellen Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7734-6625-8 (ISBN)
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Introduction - "what myth ... nowadays?" - beginning at the beginning; "Barbarians in Wonderland" - perceptions of popular culture - why wrestling?, communication studies, Matthew Arnold and the culture and civilization tradition, the American post-war mass culture debate, Marxism, feminism, structuralism and semiotics, postmodernism, the popular culture debate today; gods of the squared circle - myth and ritual in professional wrestling - the mat as media and metaphor, or finding the "rhetorics of illusion", the spectacle of anything and everything, myth of the mat, ritual of the ring, are wrestlers heroes?; towards a mythology of whoopass -1930s, 1950s, 1980s, 1990s, today; conclusion - ending at the beginning; appendix -mapping wrestling nation.
| Reihe/Serie | Studies in Popular Culture ; No. 2 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | bibliography, index |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Kampfsport / Selbstverteidigung |
| Sozialwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7734-6625-8 / 0773466258 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7734-6625-8 / 9780773466258 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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