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Steel Chair to the Head: The Pleasure and Pain of Professional Wrestling Paperback - 2005

by Nicholas Sammond (Editor)


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""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: The Posthumous Career of a Living Legend"

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  • Title Steel Chair to the Head: The Pleasure and Pain of Professional Wrestling
  • Author Nicholas Sammond (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 384
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Duke University Press, Durham
  • Date 2005-01-13
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780822334385 / 0822334380
  • Weight 1.17 lbs (0.53 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.84 x 6.48 x 0.99 in (22.45 x 16.46 x 2.51 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Wrestling, Wrestling - Social aspects
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004014274
  • Dewey Decimal Code 796.812

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Citations

  • Publishers Weekly, 12/06/2004, Page 49

About the author

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.

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