Garry Crawford: Cosplay and the Art of Play

Cover: 9783030159689 | Cosplay and the Art of Play | Exploring Sub-Culture Through Art | Buch

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Beschreibung

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.

Über den Autor

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.

Zusammenfassung

Uses art as a form of research method in studying a contemporary urban subculture

Analyses the ways in which Cosplayers appropriate urban spaces

Develops our understanding of this community, and moves forward our understanding of play, contemporary urban sub-cultures and media fandom

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2020
Genre:	Recht , Sozialwissenschaften , Soziologie , Wirtschaft
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	Leisure Studies in a Global Era
Inhalt:	xiii 258 S. 1 s/w Illustr. 15 farbige Illustr. 258 p. 16 illus. 15 illus. in color.
ISBN-13:	9783030159689
ISBN-10:	303015968X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Crawford, Garry Hancock, David
Hersteller:	Springer Springer International Publishing AG Leisure Studies in a Global Era
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	210 x 148 x 15 mm
Von/Mit:	Garry Crawford (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	14.08.2020
Gewicht:	0,356 kg