num_pages: 288
description: Drawing on interviews with promoters, wrestlers, and fans, a journalist journeys inside the world of professional wrestling to provide a close-up look at wrestling culture, its theatrical fakery, and its participants and to explore such issues as violence, masculinity, fame, aggression, performance, and play. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
language: English
title: Slaphappy: Pride, Prejudice, And Professional Wrestling
titlecomplete: Slaphappy: Pride, Prejudice, And Professional Wrestling
genres: Nonfiction, Sports
ratings_count: 78
publisher: Perennial