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Bezig met laden... Cosplayers : gender and identity (editie 2022)door A. Luxx Mishou
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"Cosplayers: Gender and Identity is an examination of identity practices in cosplay, as expressed by cosplayers themselves. It challenges the assumed correlation between cosplay and cosplayer identity and considers the lived experiences of cosplayers engaging in the fan practice of sartorial performance. Through a series of chapters covering the blurring lines of gender, sexualized fantasy in real spaces, and nostalgia, the author argues that observational data runs the risk of affirming normative expectations of identity in the absence of cosplayer narratives and produces misreadings that generalize. The work develops and builds an understanding of a complex cultural system of art, engaging with multiple methodologies to make identity, fandom and critical analysis on the parts of participants and observers alike. This is an accessible and innovative study suitable for scholars and students in gender studies, cultural studies, sexuality studies, sociology and media studies"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)793.93The arts Recreational and performing arts Indoor games and amusements Other indoor amusements Adventure and fantasy gamesLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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Best first lines of an academic text in my memory. We're off to the races, and a fine contest it will be. Will I emerge victorious over my own very limited and discomfort-laden notions of cosplay? (I still have trouble distinguishing it from LARPing.) Will the clarity and vigor of Luxx's prose allow my COVIDified attention span to take a back seat and follow her careful and well-cited and -founded discussions of the many aspects of cosplay?
The appeal might not reach me; the importance of it definitely does. After reading this informative explanation of cosplay's community and its many, often uneasy, intersections with our cultural expecatations as well as Fandom in general, I think I'm far better equipped to begin asking better questions than I was before.
I have been Luxx's friend in the online world of LibraryThing for over a decade. I am mightily impressed with her scholarship, of course, but I also experience a friend's overwhelming delight in her accomplishment in this book: She has explained my elderly self to me by way of paths I never thought to take. In five concise chapters, Luxx has brought her readers to a state of informed readiness to learn. That she has done so in an enjoyable way is her gift. ( )