Broderick D V Chow
Biographic Data
| ID | 1709407 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Broderick D V Chow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Broderick D V |
| FAMILY NAME | Chow |
| SIGNATURE | CHOW B D V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Broderick D.V. Chow is Lecturer in Theatre and Drama at Brunel University, London, UK, where he teaches theatre history and leads the musical theatre strand of the BA Theatre program. His research concerns the intersections of performance practices, politics, economy, and industrial change, especially in the world of work. He has also written on choreographic practices, parkour (free-running), the Olympics, and actor training. Broderick is currently preparing an autoethnographic project and monograph on... |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A screen archive of Asian bros: Casting masculinity and performing stereotypes
This article examines theatrical and screen casting practices through the figure of the Asian bro. Whether or not the Asian bro is a resistant figure – one which challenges stereotypical depictions of Asian (primarily American) masculinity – or a reactionary one, has been the subject of popular debate in recent years, connected to ideas of Asian masculinity that have been rehearsed since the beginnings of the Asian American movement in the 1960s.…
Sculpting Masculinities in 19th- and 20th-Century Physical Culture: The Practiced Life of Stanley Rothwell
The performance of physical transformation poses a methodological challenge for historians of 19th- and 20th-century physical culture: it is primarily the still image that evidences a dynamic, embodied practice. The archive of Stanley Rothwell (1904–1986) — British miner, artist’s model, bodybuilder, boxer, wrestler, writer, and physical educator — reveals the sculpted masculine “ideal” as a performance of becoming, in which the image is constant…
Feeling in Counterpoint: A Playlist
Feeling in Counterpoint:A Playlist Broderick D. V. Chow The essay that this piece accompanies, which appears in the September 2018 issue of Theatre Journal 70, had a long and difficult journey to publication. It began as an invitation in 2015 to present work-in-progress research at the London Theatre Seminar. The invitation coincided with a contemporaneous obsession I had with a particular mode of Philippine digital-cultural production: basically…
Feeling in Counterpoint: Complicit Spectatorship and the Filipino Performing Body
This essay considers three examples of Filipino "mimicry" in performance: a scene from the nineteenth-century novel Noli Me Tángere; an "anonymous" singer covering pop songs in a viral video; and a Filipina popstar playing the female lead in a West End musical. Writing from an embodied and personal standpoint, the author uses these examples to theorize a mode of spectatorship he calls "feeling in counterpoint." Drawing on the idea of contrapuntal…
A Constellation of Imagined Theatres: Technology and Performance
In ten one-page hypothetical scores, playlets, and closet dramas, a collection of theorists and artists of the contemporary stage present “imagined theatres” interrogating what is possible and impossible at the intersections of performance and technology. A one-page gloss faces each imagined theatre, expanding on its promise in critical, historical, or personal terms. The dialogues among these texts explore how performances theorize, and how theo…
Work and Shoot: Professional Wrestling and Embodied Politics
The physical practice of pro-wrestling is one of cooperation, improvisation, and care for the other. Against the precarious labor economy of wrestling, the cooperative nature of this unique performance form embodies a politics of friendship
Feeling in Counterpoint: Complicit Spectatorship and the Filipino Performing Body
This essay considers three examples of Filipino "mimicry" in performance: a scene from the nineteenth-century novel Noli Me Tángere; an "anonymous" singer covering pop songs in a viral video; and a Filipina popstar playing the female lead in a West End musical. Writing from an embodied and personal standpoint, the author uses these examples to theorize a mode of spectatorship he calls "feeling in counterpoint." Drawing on the idea of contrapuntal…
Work and Shoot: Professional Wrestling and Embodied Politics
The physical practice of pro-wrestling is one of cooperation, improvisation, and care for the other. Against the precarious labor economy of wrestling, the cooperative nature of this unique performance form embodies a politics of friendship
A Constellation of Imagined Theatres: Technology and Performance
In ten one-page hypothetical scores, playlets, and closet dramas, a collection of theorists and artists of the contemporary stage present “imagined theatres” interrogating what is possible and impossible at the intersections of performance and technology. A one-page gloss faces each imagined theatre, expanding on its promise in critical, historical, or personal terms. The dialogues among these texts explore how performances theorize, and how theo…
Feeling in Counterpoint: A Playlist
Feeling in Counterpoint:A Playlist Broderick D. V. Chow The essay that this piece accompanies, which appears in the September 2018 issue of Theatre Journal 70, had a long and difficult journey to publication. It began as an invitation in 2015 to present work-in-progress research at the London Theatre Seminar. The invitation coincided with a contemporaneous obsession I had with a particular mode of Philippine digital-cultural production: basically…
Feeling in Counterpoint: Complicit Spectatorship and the Filipino Performing Body
This essay considers three examples of Filipino "mimicry" in performance: a scene from the nineteenth-century novel Noli Me Tángere; an "anonymous" singer covering pop songs in a viral video; and a Filipina popstar playing the female lead in a West End musical. Writing from an embodied and personal standpoint, the author uses these examples to theorize a mode of spectatorship he calls "feeling in counterpoint." Drawing on the idea of contrapuntal…
Sculpting Masculinities in 19th- and 20th-Century Physical Culture: The Practiced Life of Stanley Rothwell
The performance of physical transformation poses a methodological challenge for historians of 19th- and 20th-century physical culture: it is primarily the still image that evidences a dynamic, embodied practice. The archive of Stanley Rothwell (1904–1986) — British miner, artist’s model, bodybuilder, boxer, wrestler, writer, and physical educator — reveals the sculpted masculine “ideal” as a performance of becoming, in which the image is constant…
A screen archive of Asian bros: Casting masculinity and performing stereotypes
This article examines theatrical and screen casting practices through the figure of the Asian bro. Whether or not the Asian bro is a resistant figure – one which challenges stereotypical depictions of Asian (primarily American) masculinity – or a reactionary one, has been the subject of popular debate in recent years, connected to ideas of Asian masculinity that have been rehearsed since the beginnings of the Asian American movement in the 1960s.…
Art (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Visual arts (5 works) · History (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Embodied cognition (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · History (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)