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Professional Wrestling, the Myth, the Mat, and American Popular Culture

, by Leverette, Marc

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ISBN: 9780773466258 | 0773466258
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 8/1/2003

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Author Biography

Marc Leverette teaches courses in media, communication, and popular culture at Rutgers University.

Preface by David Lavery

Author's Note

iii

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

(12)

"What Myth... Nowadays?"

Beginning at the Beginning

2. "Barbarians in Wonderland: " Perceptions of Popular Culture

(78)

Why Wrestling?

Communication Studies

Matthew Arnold and the Culture and Civilization Tradition

the American Postwar Mass Culture Debate

Marxism

Feminism

Structuralism and Semiotics

Postmodernism

the Popular Culture Debate Today

3. Gods of the Squared Circle: Myth and Ritual in Professional Wrestling

(38)

Welcome to the World of 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?

4. Towards a Mythology of Whoopass

129

(52)

1930's

1950's

1980's and Early 1990's

Late 1990's and Today

5. Conclusion

181

(8)

Ending at the Beginning

Appendix: Mapping Wrestling Nation

189

(12)

Bibliography

201

(26)

Index

227

Professional Wrestling, the Myth, the Mat, and American Popular Culture

Author Biography

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