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Costuming Cosplay - Dressing the Imagination (Hardcover)
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Costuming Cosplay - Dressing the Imagination (Hardcover)
Series: Dress, Body, Culture
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Cosplay, short for "costume play", has grown from its origins at
fan conventions into a billion-dollar global dress phenomenon.
Costuming Cosplay takes us from elaborately crafted DIY costumes to
online fandoms, examining how the practice of portraying fictional
characters from popular culture through dress and performance has
become a creative means of expressing and playing with different
identities. With an approach that ranges from admiration and
role-play to gender performance, this is the first book to fully
examine the subculture and costume of the Cosplay phenomenon.
Drawing on extensive first-hand research at conventions across
North America and Asia, Theresa M. Winge invites us to explore how
Cosplay functions as a meritocracy of creativity, escapism, and
disguise, and offers a creative realm in which fantasy and new
forms of socializing carry as much importance as costume.
Illustrated with color photographs of both celebrity and amateur
Cosplayers, Costuming Cosplay is essential reading for students and
scholars of fashion and costume, popular culture, anthropology,
gender, and media studies, as well as global players and fans of
Cosplay.
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