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| Author | : DH Publishing Inc |
| Publisher | : DH Publishing Inc |
| Total Pages | : 114 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1932897194 |
Enter the wacky world of Cosplay, Japan's underground costume scene. All over Japan hard-core fans of anime, video games and manga dress up in their latest costumes. This is a world where ordinary girls reinvent themselves as street-fighting chicks, em
| Author | : cocoro books |
| Publisher | : DH Publishing Inc |
| Total Pages | : 81 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
| ISBN | : 1932897380 |
The Cosplay phenomenon, the Japanese love of making and wearing the outfits of manga, anime and video-game characters, has now spread worldwide, with established conventions, fan sites, clubs and even cosplay celebrities strutting their stuff. This third photobook in the series continues the onslaught of visual deliciousness with hundreds of full-color photos of street-fighting chicks, emerald-haired princesses and faux-fur kittens. Why do they do it? How do they do it?! Find out as the girls themselves explain their obsessions and experiences. All new girls!! All new costumes!! All new format!!
| Author | : Andrew Liptak |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 368 |
| Release | : 2022-06-28 |
| Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
| ISBN | : 1534455825 |
This look at the colorful and complex history of cosplay and fandom fashion examines the relationship between franchises and the cosplayers they inspire and the technology that helps bring the details of costumes to life.
| Author | : Frenchy Lunning |
| Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 2022-03-15 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1452967466 |
An exploration of cosplay and its relationship with the realms of its global fandom, performance, and the modes of fictional existence Flourishing far beyond its Japanese roots, cosplay has become an international phenomenon with fervid fans who gather at enormous, worldwide conventions annually. Here, author Frenchy Lunning offers an intimate, sensational tour through cosplay’s past and present, as well as its global lure. Through a culmination of years of personal research on cosplay, and growing out of Lunning’s wealth of scholarship, conference presentations, and cosplayer interviews, Cosplay is a unique and necessary examination of identity, performance, play, and otaku fandom and culture in relation to contemporary theories. With discussions covering construction, masquerades, and community through performance, Lunning presents cosplay as a dynamic and ever-evolving global practice. She combines the fascinating viewpoints of cosplayers with observational, in-depth research on cosplay history and practice, and a deep dive into critical theory involving the modes of fictional existence, in order to understand its global expansion. Augmented with beautiful photographs, this is an engrossing, lively read that explores a complicated and often misunderstood history and meditates on how cosplay allows its participants to create and construct meaning and identity.
| Author | : Jennifer Culp |
| Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
| Total Pages | : 51 |
| Release | : 2015-12-15 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1499437153 |
Cosplay, a blend of costume and play, has taken off in popularity around the world. This entertaining and enlightening volume introduces readers to the wide and vivid cosplay world. They will learn the history of this creative outlet and how some people have taken this colorful and whimsical hobby and made it into a lucrative business. Whether the reader is interested in costumes, makeup, acting, photography, or another aspect of cosplay, this book provides inspirational yet practical examples of people who have made careers out of creative cosplay.
| Author | : Ellyssa Kroski |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 169 |
| Release | : 2015-10-27 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1442256494 |
Cosplay, comics, anime, and geek culture have exploded into the mainstream over recent years and have resulted in a thriving community of costume enthusiasts and pop culture fans. Today’s cosplayers find inspiration on the pages of comics, classic literature, and even history, as well as film, television, and video games to inform their creative and oftentimes elaborate ensembles. They utilize all manner of materials and techniques including 3D printers, thermoplastics, craft foam, fabric and more to design their costumes and props. Libraries on the leading edge are already embracing this new worldwide sensation by integrating cosplay into their programming and events. Learn all about the world of cosplay and how you can host cosplay events, workshops, makerspaces, clubs, and more in your library! This one-stop guide includes quotes and interviews with librarians who are incorporating cosplay into their programming as well as with cosplayers. You’ll also find 32 full-color photographs of cosplay in action to give you both ideas and inspiration for getting started!
| Author | : Therèsa M. Winge |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 231 |
| Release | : 2018-11-01 |
| Genre | : Design |
| ISBN | : 1350035890 |
Cosplay, short for "costume play", has grown from its origins at fan conventions into a billion-dollar global dress phenomenon. Costuming Cosplay takes us from elaborately crafted DIY costumes to online fandoms, examining how the practice of portraying fictional characters from popular culture through dress and performance has become a creative means of expressing and playing with different identities. With an approach that ranges from admiration and role-play to gender performance, this is the first book to fully examine the subculture and costume of the Cosplay phenomenon. Drawing on extensive first-hand research at conventions across North America and Asia, Therèsa M. Winge invites us to explore how Cosplay functions as a meritocracy of creativity, escapism, and disguise, and offers a creative realm in which fantasy and new forms of socializing carry as much importance as costume. Illustrated with color photographs of both celebrity and amateur Cosplayers, Costuming Cosplay is essential reading for students and scholars of fashion and costume, popular culture, anthropology, gender, and media studies, as well as global players and fans of Cosplay.
| Author | : Charlotte J. Fabricius |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 182 |
| Release | : 2023-10-16 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 100096762X |
Super-Girls of the Future: Girlhood and Agency in Contemporary Superhero Comics investigates girl superheroes published by DC and Marvel Comics in the first two decades of the twenty-first century, asking who the new-and-improved super-girls are and what potentials they hold for imagining girls as agents of change, in the genre as well as its socio-cultural context. As super-girls have grown increasingly numerous and diverse since the turn of the millennium, they provide an opportunity for reconsidering representations of gender and power in the superhero genre. This book offers the term agentic embodiment as an analytical tool for critiquing the body politics of superhero comics, particularly concerning youth, femininity, whiteness, and violence. Grounded in comics studies and informed by feminist cultural studies, the book contributes a critical and hopeful perspective on the diversification of a genre often written off as irredeemably conservative and patriarchal. Super-Girls of the Future is a key title for students and scholars of comics studies, visual culture, US popular culture, and feminist criticism.
| Author | : Nikki Crescent |
| Publisher | : Princess Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 48 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
Cory hasn’t been a geek since he was mocked as a young teen for having a silly crush on a cute character from a Japanese cartoon. Since then, he’s made a point of distancing himself from all things geeky. So when he agrees to go to Portland for a big comic expo, it’s just for the slutty Cosplay girls and nothing else. He doesn’t expect to find a pretty, young woman dressed as his old favourite character. He’s completely smitten, until he finds out that she’s not so much a Cosplayer as she is a Cross-player.
| Author | : Saito Tamaki |
| Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
| Total Pages | : 314 |
| Release | : 2013-11-30 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1452916500 |
From Cutie Honey and Sailor Moon to Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, the worlds of Japanese anime and manga teem with prepubescent girls toting deadly weapons. Sometimes overtly sexual, always intensely cute, the beautiful fighting girl has been both hailed as a feminist icon and condemned as a symptom of the objectification of young women in Japanese society. In Beautiful Fighting Girl, Saitō Tamaki offers a far more sophisticated and convincing interpretation of this alluring and capable figure. For Saitō, the beautiful fighting girl is a complex sexual fantasy that paradoxically lends reality to the fictional spaces she inhabits. As an object of desire for male otaku (obsessive fans of anime and manga), she saturates these worlds with meaning even as her fictional status demands her ceaseless proliferation and reproduction. Rejecting simplistic moralizing, Saitō understands the otaku’s ability to eroticize and even fall in love with the beautiful fighting girl not as a sign of immaturity or maladaptation but as a result of a heightened sensitivity to the multiple layers of mediation and fictional context that constitute life in our hypermediated world—a logical outcome of the media they consume. Featuring extensive interviews with Japanese and American otaku, a comprehensive genealogy of the beautiful fighting girl, and an analysis of the American outsider artist Henry Darger, whose baroque imagination Saitō sees as an important antecedent of otaku culture, Beautiful Fighting Girl was hugely influential when first published in Japan, and it remains a key text in the study of manga, anime, and otaku culture. Now available in English for the first time, this book will spark new debates about the role played by desire in the production and consumption of popular culture.
