The World of Lucha Libre : Secrets, Revelations, and Mexican National Identity PDF
by Levi Heather Levi
Part of the American Encounters/Global Interactions series
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Levi considers lucha libre in light of scholarship about sport, modernization, and the formation of the Mexican nation-state, and in connection to professional wrestling in the United States. She examines the role of secrecy in wrestling, the relationship between wrestlers and the characters they embody, and the meanings of the masks worn by luchadors. She discusses male wrestlers who perform masculine roles, those who cross-dress and perform feminine roles, and female wrestlers who wrestle each other. Investigating the relationship between lucha libre and the mass media, she highlights the history of the sport's engagement with television: it was televised briefly in the early 1950s, but not again until 1991. Finally, Levi traces the circulation of lucha libre symbols in avant-garde artistic movements and its appropriation in left-wing political discourse. The World of Lucha Libre shows how a sport imported from the United States in the 1930s came to be an iconic symbol of Mexican cultural authenticity.
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- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:24/10/2008
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- ISBN:9780822391470
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:24/10/2008
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- ISBN:9780822391470