Fifty million viewers can't be wrong: Professional wrestling, sports-entertainment, and mimesis

Sociology of Sport Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 47-66

  Atkinson, Michael ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

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EID: 0036109798     PISSN: 07411235     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1123/ssj.19.1.47     Document Type: Article

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