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Performance Works: Muscle Works : Physical Culture and the Performance of Masculinity by Broderick D. V. Chow (2024, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherNorthwestern University Press
ISBN-10081014736X
ISBN-139780810147362
eBay Product ID (ePID)6064429544
Product Key Features
Number of Pages248 Pages
Publication NameMuscle Works : Physical Culture and the Performance of Masculinity
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2024
SubjectTheater / History & Criticism, Men's Studies, General
TypeTextbook
AuthorBroderick D. V. Chow
Subject AreaPerforming Arts, Sports & Recreation, Social Science
SeriesPerformance Works
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight11.7 Oz
Item Length8.9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2024-006517
Reviews" Muscle Works is a theoretically sophisticated and historically rich study of the imbrication between fitness culture, performance, theatricality, and masculinity. Chow invites us to consider how fitness cultures reflect the (re)organization of the body within the orders of contemporary capital as he elaborates on a theory of the queer forms of corporeal being and being-with that emerges from within the fraught, overlapping ideological spaces of fitness and performance. Elegantly and compellingly written, this is an exciting and welcome new addition to the overlapping libraries of performance theory and queer theory." --Joshua Chambers-Letson, Northwestern University, "Drawing on his deep engagement with contemporary physical culture and its histories, Chow deftly traces the enmeshment of performance in practices of masculinity, fitness, and theatricality. The result is an original and compelling study that tests the boundaries of theatrical performance and the performance of masculinity in physical culture settings while modeling innovative ways of combining practice and archival research." --Fintan Walsh, Birkbeck, University of London
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Table Of ContentAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Hypertrophy : Men's Bodybuilding and Theatricality Chapter 2. Transformation : The Dynamic Tensions of "Before and After" Chapter 3. Strength : Astonishing Feats with Willful Things Chapter 4. Failure and Recovery : The Cross-Contamination of Progressive Overload Chapter 5. Grappling : George Hackenschmidt's Education in Wrestling Chapter 6. Mirror : Racial Impressibility and the Built Asian Male Body Coda. Muscle Beach, 1934-1958: Prelude, Pause, and Utopia Notes Index
SynopsisMen's fitness as a performance -- from nineteenth-century theatrical exhibitions to health and wellness practices today, From its origins in the nineteenth-century spectacles of strongmen, acrobats, and wrestlers to its legitimization in the twentieth century in competitive sports and health and wellness practices, men's fitness has functioned as performance. These modes of display, Broderick D. V. Chow argues, have shaped definitions of masculinity over the last two centuries. Chow makes the case that an understanding of contemporary fitness culture must contend with this theatrical history: the legacy of self-described "Strongest Man in the World" Eugen Sandow, the philosophy of weightlifter George Hackenschmidt, the performances of martial artist Bruce Lee, and the intersections of fatigue, resistance training, and whiteness. Muscle Works: Physical Culture and the Performance of Masculinity moves beyond the gym and across the archive, working out techniques, poses, and performances to consider how, as gendered subjects, we inhabit and make worlds through our bodies., Men's fitness as a performance -- from nineteenth-century theatrical exhibitions to health and wellness practices today This book recounts the story of fitness culture from its beginnings as spectacles of strongmen, weightlifters, acrobats, and wrestlers to its legitimization in the twentieth-century in the form of competitive sports and health and wellness practices. Broderick D. V. Chow shows how these modes of display contribute to the construction and deconstruction of definitions of masculinity. Attending to its theatrical origins, Chow argues for a more nuanced understanding of fitness culture, one informed by the legacies of self-described Strongest Man in the World Eugen Sandow and the history of fakery in strongman performance; the philosophy of weightlifter George Hackenschmidt and the performances of martial artist Bruce Lee; and the intersections of fatigue, resistance training, and whiteness. Muscle Works: Physical Culture and the Performance of Masculinity moves beyond the gym and across the archive, working out techniques, poses, and performances to consider how, as gendered subjects, we inhabit and make worlds through our bodies.
LC Classification NumberGV211.C48 2024
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