Cosplay and the Art of Play

Exploring Sub-Culture Through Art

Garry Crawford, David Hancock (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

XIII, 258 Seiten

2019
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-15965-8 (ISBN)

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This book is an introduction to cosplay as a subculture and community, built around playful spaces and the everyday practices of crafting costumes, identities, and performances.

Drawing on new and original ethnographic data, as well as the innovative use of arts-led research, this book adds to our understanding of a popular, global cultural practice. In turn, this pushes forward our understanding of play, fan practices, subcultures, practice-led research, and uses of urban spaces.

Cosplay and the Art of Play offers a significant addition to key contemporary debates on the meaning and uses of popular culture in the 21st century, and will be of importance to students and scholars interested in communities, fandom, identity, leisure, participatory cultures, performance, and play.

Garry Crawford is Professor of Cultural Sociology at the University of Salford, UK. David Hancock is Co-founder and Director of PAPER gallery, Lecturer of Visual Arts at the University of Salford, UK, and an internationally recognised artist.

1. Introduction: What Is Cosplay?.- 2. Contextualising the Artwork.- 3. Cosplay and Art as Research Method.- 4. Cosplay as Subculture.- 5. Identity and Performance.- 6. Crafting Cosplay.- 7. Playful Cultures and the Appropriation of Urban Space.- 8. Conclusion: Decentring Cosplay.

Erscheinungsdatum	19.06.2019
Reihe/Serie	Leisure Studies in a Global Era
Zusatzinfo	XIII, 258 p. 16 illus., 15 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	483 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
Schlagworte	ART • Embodiment • Media fandom • participatory culture • Resisitance • Sub-culture • Urban Appropriation • Urban space
ISBN-10	3-030-15965-5 / 3030159655
ISBN-13	978-3-030-15965-8 / 9783030159658
Zustand	Neuware