The Wrestler's Cruel Study
Title | The Wrestler's Cruel Study PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Dobyns |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | 431 |
Release | 1995-02-17 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0393312127 |
"One hell of a book, believe me. Here we have comedy of every kind--of situation, types, manners, ideas, and language--all rolled seamlessly into one, and for the ultimate serious purpose, our sanity. It is the Supreme Fiction toward which the Twentieth century has been steadily advancing from the start."--Hayden Carruth.
Fighting for Recognition
Title | Fighting for Recognition PDF eBook |
Author | R. Tyson Smith |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Total Pages | 357 |
Release | 2014-08-19 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0822376407 |
In Fighting for Recognition, R. Tyson Smith enters the world of independent professional wrestling, a community-based entertainment staged in community centers, high school gyms, and other modest venues. Like the big-name, televised pro wrestlers who originally inspired them, indie wrestlers engage in choreographed fights in character. Smith details the experiences, meanings, and motivations of the young men who wrestle as "Lethal" or "Southern Bad Boy," despite receiving little to no pay and risking the possibility of serious and sometimes permanent injury. Exploring intertwined issues of gender, class, violence, and the body, he sheds new light on the changing sources of identity in a postindustrial society that increasingly features low wages, insecure employment, and fragmented social support. Smith uncovers the tensions between strength and vulnerability, pain and solidarity, and homophobia and homoeroticism that play out both backstage and in the ring as the wrestlers seek recognition from fellow performers and devoted fans.
The Wrestler
Title | The Wrestler PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Siegel |
Publisher | Rizzoli International Publications |
Total Pages | 204 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler is an insightful behind-the-scenes meditation on the film's provocative characters and the choices they make. Once a hugely successful WWF wrestler, Randy the Ram now ekes out a living performing for diehard wrestling fans from the 1980s in high school gyms and community centers around New Jersey. But when he suffers a heart attack, Randy's doctor tells him he needs to lay off the steroids and stop wrestling altogether. Forced out of show business, Randy begins to evaluate the state of his life. But the pull of the spotlight is too strong and he attempts once again to find his way back into the ring. Featuring actors Mickey Rourke, Academy award-winning Marisa Tomei, and Evan Rachel Wood, this book is an extension of Aronofsky's filmic vision, and will contain film stills, the original shooting script, still photos, original art, and observations by its creators, cast, and crew.
American Writers
Title | American Writers PDF eBook |
Author | Leonard Unger |
Publisher | Charles Scribner's Sons |
Total Pages | 640 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780684312330 |
The four volume set consists of ninety-seven of the pamphlets originally published as the University of Minnesota pamphlets on American writers. Some have been revised and updated.
The Nature-study Review
Title | The Nature-study Review PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 458 |
Release | 1921 |
Genre | Natural history |
ISBN |
The Nature-study Review
Title | The Nature-study Review PDF eBook |
Author | Maurice Alpheus Bigelow |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 890 |
Release | 1920 |
Genre | Nature study |
ISBN |
The Study of English
Title | The Study of English PDF eBook |
Author | Douglas Gordon Crawford |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 406 |
Release | 1919 |
Genre | English language |
ISBN |