Planet Cosplay: Costume Play, Identity and Global Fandom

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Paul Mountfort (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand) Anne Peirson-Smith (Northumbria University, UK)

Planet Cosplay

Costume Play, Identity and Global Fandom

Paul Mountfort (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand), Anne Peirson-Smith (Northumbria University, UK), Adam Geczy (The University of Sydney)

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English

Intellect Books
15 September 2019

Performance art; Industrial: Commercial Art & Design; Fashion & textiles: design; Cultural studies; Popular culture

This book examines cosplay from a set of ground-breaking 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 centers 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.

By: Paul Mountfort (Auckland University of Technology New Zealand), Anne Peirson-Smith (Northumbria University, UK), Adam Geczy (The University of Sydney)
Imprint: Intellect Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 172mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 494g
ISBN: 9781789381511
ISBN 10: 1789381517
Pages: 308
Publication Date: 15 September 2019
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

Dr Paul Mountfort is Chair of the AUT Centre for Creative Writing where he has had a supervision role in over 40 postgraduate supervision projects. He is a founding member and Vice-President of PopCAANZ (Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand) and sits on the editorial boards of The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture (UK: Intellect) and IOFOR Journal of Asian Studies. His research interests include oracle-texts in popular culture, transmedia storytelling, street photography and cosplay. Dr Anne Peirson-Smith is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, City University of Hong Kong. She teaches and researches fashion studies, fashion culture and communication, popular culture, advertising and branding and is currently researching the subject of Cosplay and youth fashion style in South East Asia with the aid of a Hong Kong Government funded research grant. Dr Adam Geczy is an artist and writer who is Senior Lecturer at Sydney College of the Arts, a Faculty of the University of Sydney. With twenty years of artistic practice, his video installations and performance-based works have been exhibited throughout Australasia, Asia and Europe to considerable critical acclaim.

Reviews for Planet Cosplay: Costume Play, Identity and Global Fandom

'An effective primer for anyone looking to better understand the topic. [...] Where the book is particularly effective is in providing broader histories and working definitions for an under-researched area. While many accounts of cosplay begin with Takahashi’s 1983 article, the first part of Planet Cosplay charts how costuming as characters from popular culture dates back over a hundred years. [...] This rounded approach enables the authors to position this under-analysed fan practice as an important site of cultural exchange, fluid identity and communal participation. Collectively, these perspectives make a persuasive argument that cosplay is worthy of sustained scholarly interest and that Planet Cosplay should provide a useful entry point for those hoping to take up that research.' -- Liam Burke, Journal of European Popular Culture 'While the academic study of cosplay has blossomed in the last decade, this book is the first scholarly monograph on the subject. [...] Planet Cosplay: Costume Play, Identity and Global Fandom is an excellent monograph. Its use of several different approaches to understand cosplay makes it a fine resource for the study of this intriguing practice.' -- Arienne McCracken, Fashion, Style and Popular Culture