Abstract
Introduction - what myth ... nowadays? - beginning at the beginning Barbarians in Wonderland - perceptions of popular culture - why wrestling?, communication studies, Matthew Arnold and the culture and civilization tradition, the American post-war mass culture debate, Marxism, feminism, structuralism and semiotics, postmodernism, the popular culture debate today gods of the squared circle - myth and ritual in professional wrestling - the mat as media and metaphor, or finding the rhetorics of illusion, the spectacle of anything and everything, myth of the mat, ritual of the ring, are wrestlers heroes? towards a mythology of whoopass -1930s, 1950s, 1980s, 1990s, today conclusion - ending at the beginning appendix -mapping wrestling nation.
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