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Portrait of a Real American: Class, Masculinity, Race, and Ideology in American Professional Wrestling, 1983-1993

Canada, Nicholas Ryan

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2022, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bowling Green State University, American Culture Studies.
Fans and afficionados alike consider Hulk Hogan (Terry Eugene Bollea) to be the most successful professional wrestler of all time given his box-office drawing ability. Previous scholarship has looked at the relationship between professional wrestling and American culture largely through textual analysis and the symbolic interpretation of popular wrestling personas. This study argues that the success of Hulk Hogan and American professional wrestling in the 1980s and 1990s could have only been possible during the emergence of a variety of trends in American capitalism; specifically in production, technology, and other cultural trends while also exploring the dimensions of race, nationalism, gender, and class. By framing Marxist, film, and political economy-based theory into a cultural historical lens, this study looks at how characters such as Hogan were both literal and symbolic creations of neoliberalism
Scott Martin, Ph.D. (Advisor)
Brooks Vostal, Ph.D. (Other)
Kristen Rudisill, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Radhika Gajjala, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
240 p.

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  • Canada, N. R. (2022). Portrait of a Real American: Class, Masculinity, Race, and Ideology in American Professional Wrestling, 1983-1993 [Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1647349162982619

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Canada, Nicholas. Portrait of a Real American: Class, Masculinity, Race, and Ideology in American Professional Wrestling, 1983-1993. 2022. Bowling Green State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1647349162982619.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Canada, Nicholas. "Portrait of a Real American: Class, Masculinity, Race, and Ideology in American Professional Wrestling, 1983-1993." Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University, 2022. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1647349162982619

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)