The Esthetics of Cosplay

IF 0.7 4区社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Fashion Theory-The Journal of Dress Body & Culture Pub Date : 2022-04-25 DOI:10.1080/1362704X.2022.2065783

Yuchen Guo

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Abstract

Abstract This paper aims to investigate cosplay—an activity in which participants wear costumes to portray a fictional character. Firstly, I conceptually distinguish cosplay from onstage acting, child pretend play, and similar cases. I argue that cosplay is based on self-oriented perspective-taking and is more committed to the character than pretend play but less committed than onstage acting. Subsequently, I argue that cosplay is a type of hybrid art or a hybrid of art forms—a combination of photography, dramatic acting, and fashion performance.

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角色扮演的美学

摘要本文旨在研究角色扮演——一种参与者穿着戏服扮演虚构人物的活动。首先，我从概念上将角色扮演与舞台表演、儿童扮演和类似的情况区分开来。我认为角色扮演是基于自我导向的视角，比假装扮演更忠于角色，但比舞台表演更不忠于角色。随后，我认为角色扮演是一种混合艺术或艺术形式的混合——摄影、戏剧表演和时尚表演的结合。

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Fashion Theory-The Journal of Dress Body & Culture HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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2.10

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期刊介绍： The importance of studying the body as a site for the deployment of discourses is well-established in a number of disciplines. By contrast, the study of fashion has, until recently, suffered from a lack of critical analysis. Increasingly, however, scholars have recognized the cultural significance of self-fashioning, including not only clothing but also such body alterations as tattooing and piercing. Fashion Theory takes as its starting point a definition of “fashion” as the cultural construction of the embodied identity. It provides an interdisciplinary forum for the rigorous analysis of cultural phenomena ranging from footbinding to fashion advertising.