Paul Mountfort & Anne Peirson-Smith 
Planet Cosplay 
Costume Play, Identity and Global Fandom

This book examines cosplay from a set of groundbreaking disciplinary approaches, highlighting the latest and emerging discourses around this popular cultural practice.
Planet Cosplay is authored by widely published scholars in this field, examining the central aspects of cosplay ranging from sources and sites to performance and play, from sex and gender to production and consumption. Topics discussed include the rise of cosplay as a cultural phenomenon and its role in personal, cultural and global identities.
Planet Cosplay provides a unique, multifaceted examination of the practice from theoretical bases including popular cultural studies, performance studies, gender studies and transmedia studies. As the title suggests, the book’s purview is global, encompassing some of the main centres of cosplay throughout the United States, Asia, Europe and Australasia. Each of the chapters offers not only a set of entry points into its subject matter, but also a narrative of the development of cosplay and scholarly approaches to it.

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part 1: Critical Practice

Chapter 1: Cosplay as Citation

Chapter 2: Cosphotography and Fan Capital

Chapter 3: Cosplay at Armageddon

Part II: Ethnographies

Chapter 4: Cos/play

Chapter 5: Cosplay Sites

Chapter 6: Cos/creation

Part III: Provocations

Chapter 7: Proto-Cosplay

Chapter 8: Cosgender/Cosqueer

Chapter 9: Cosporn

Conclusion: Cosplay Futures

Index 

Om författaren

Adam Geczy teaches at the University of Sydney. He has written with Vicki Karaminas Fashion and Art (2013), Fashion’s Double: Representations of Fashion in Painting, Photography and Film (2015) and Critical Fashion Practice from Westwood to Van Beirendonk (2017).