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 of the
contradictions and struggles that shape American culture.The
essayists include scholars in anthropology, psychology, film
studies, communication studies, and sociology, one of whom used to
wrestle professionally. Classic studies of wrestling by Roland
Barthes, Carlos Monsivais, Sharon Mazer, and Henry Jenkins appear
alongside original essays. Whether exploring how pro wrestling
inflects race, masculinity, and ideas of reality and authenticity;
how female fans express their enthusiasm for male wrestlers; or how
lucha libre provides insights into Mexican social and political
life, Steel Chair to the Head gives due respect to pro wrestling by
treating it with the same thorough attention usually reserved for
more conventional forms of cultural expression. Contributors.
Roland Barthes, Douglas L. Battema, Susan Clerc, Laurence de Garis,
Henry Jenkins III, Henry Jenkins IV, Heather Levi, Sharon Mazer,
Carlos Monsivais, Lucia Rahilly, Catherine Salmon, Nicholas
Sammond, Phillip Serrat, Philip Sewell
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