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Broderick D. V. Chow
Other affiliations: Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
Bio: Broderick D. V. Chow is an academic researcher from Brunel University London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Feeling & Counterpoint. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 22 publications receiving 71 citations. Previous affiliations of Broderick D. V. Chow include Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
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TL;DR: For instance, professional wrestling presents a simulacrum of grappling and combat sport practices with ancient roots, framed by serial narratives of rivalry, jealousy, and deceit that present a simplistic moral...
Abstract: Professional wrestling presents a simulacrum of grappling and combat sport practices with ancient roots, framed by serial narratives of rivalry, jealousy and deceit that present a simplistic moral ...
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TL;DR: Physical fitness demands repetition as mentioned in this paper, and achieving a bodily ideal compels the subject to return day after day to the same designated place and repeat the same set of movements, which is called repetition.
Abstract: Physical fitness demands repetition. Achieving a bodily ideal compels the subject to return day after day to the same designated place and repeat the same set of movements. For this reason, the pra...
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12 Aug 2016
TL;DR: Performance and Professional Wrestling as mentioned in this paper is the first edited volume to consider professional wrestling explicitly from the vantage point of theatre and performance studies, focusing on the suspension of disbelief, simulation, silence and speech, physical culture, and the performance of pain within the squared circle.
Abstract: Performance and Professional Wrestling is the first edited volume to consider professional wrestling explicitly from the vantage point of theatre and performance studies. Moving beyond simply noting its performative qualities or reading it via other performance genres, this collection of essays offers a complete critical reassessment of the popular sport.
Topics such as the suspension of disbelief, simulation, silence and speech, physical culture, and the performance of pain within the squared circle are explored in relation to professional wrestling, with work by both scholars and practitioners grouped into seven short sections:
Audience
Circulation
Lucha
Gender
Queerness
Bodies
Race
A significant re-reading of wrestling as a performing art, Performance and Professional Wrestling makes essential reading for scholars and students intrigued by this uniquely theatrical sport.
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TL;DR: Wardenen et al. as discussed by the authors presented a response to "Donald Trump shoots the match" by Sharon Mazer, which has also been published in final form at https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/DRAM_c_00764.
Abstract: This is the final version of record of WARDEN, C., CHOW, B. and LAINE, E., 2018. Working loose: A response to "Donald Trump shoots the match" by Sharon Mazer. TDR/The Drama Review, 62 (2), pp.201-215, which has also been published in final form at https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/DRAM_c_00764. © New York University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This article is on pp.201-215.
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01 Jan 1992
TL;DR: The body politics of Julia Kristeva and the Body Politics of JuliaKristeva as discussed by the authors are discussed in detail in Section 5.1.1 and Section 6.2.1.
Abstract: Preface (1999) Preface (1990) 1. Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire I. 'Women' as the Subject of Feminism II. The Compulsory Order of Sex/Gender/Desire III. Gender: The Circular Ruins of Contemporary Debate IV. Theorizing the Binary, the Unitary and Beyond V. Identity, Sex and the Metaphysics of Substance VI. Language, Power and the Strategies of Displacement 2. Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix I. Structuralism's Critical Exchange II. Lacan, Riviere, and the Strategies of Masquerade III. Freud and the Melancholia of Gender IV. Gender Complexity and the Limits of Identification V. Reformulating Prohibition as Power 3. Subversive Bodily Acts I. The Body Politics of Julia Kristeva II. Foucault, Herculine, and the Politics of Sexual Discontinuity III. Monique Wittig - Bodily Disintegration and Fictive Sex IV. Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions Conclusion - From Parody to Politics
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20 Mar 2012
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TL;DR: The recent appearance of the annual reports of most publicly quoted petroleum companies for the financial year 2003, together with Shell having to substantially downgrade its proven reserves, makes it a timely moment to consider 2003 performance for a range of petroleum companies, writes David Wood as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: The recent appearance of the annual reports of most publicly quoted petroleum companies for the financial year 2003, together with Shell having to substantially downgrade its proven reserves, makes it a timely moment to consider 2003 performance for a range of petroleum companies, writes David Wood.
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TL;DR: Parkour as acrobatics describes the circular and vertical process of revising and refining one's bodily relation to the world, through which practitioners are continuously attracted to new challenging moves and carving out new possible moveme... as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: The aim of this paper is to pursue a novel understanding of parkour. Through an existential phenomenological analysis based on the phenomenology of embodiment and spatiality found in Merleau-Ponty and drawing on Sloterdijk’s philosophical account of acrobatics, we will examine the bodily experience of practitioners in parkour and analyse their process of practising and performing tricks as an acrobatic movement phenomenon. The practitioners use three central terms to describe this process: challenge, break and clean. We use these terms to frame the analysis of how the practitioners are bodily related to what is not yet possible (challenge), how they repeat towards making new tricks possible (break) and how they perfect their bodily experience of moving (clean). Parkour as acrobatics describes the circular and vertical process of revising and refining one’s bodily relation to the world, through which practitioners are continuously attracted to new challenging moves and carve out new possible moveme...
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