Forum - View topicREVIEW: Cosplay: The Fictional Mode of Existence
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gridsleep
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A citation of publisher, price, and availability would be helpful.
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Duck Du Normandie
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When you talk about the book looking at cosplay across cultures, does it do it in a historical or comparative framework? Ever since watching My Dress-Up Darling, I've been curious about the world-wide cultural differences in cosplay (the emphasis on accuracy vs. individual creativity for example) and have been looking for a good resource.
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TaperW
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This sounds like a great resource! I found myself recently trying — and probably failing — to explain the whole sweep of the hobby's history when confronted by a review of a photobook of cosplayers that a) only featured people cosplaying characters from western properties, and b) behaved as if the practice came into existence at ComiCon, fully-formed, as though it were Athena springing from Zeus's skull.
(Admittedly, I'm old enough that I still kind of think dressing as a character from an anime or manga is "cosplay", and dressing as a character from an American movie or UK TV show is "costuming".) |
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fuuma_monou
 Posts: 1853 Location: Quezon City, Philippines |
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IIRC the term "cosplay" is very much Japanese in origin but the practice goes back to western SF/fantasy conventions from the 1940s, if not earlier. |
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CorneredAngel
 Posts: 854 Location: New York, NY |
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Publisher is University of Minnesota Press, price is $25 for the paperback or $14.75 for the Kindle version, and availability is all over the place, from the publisher directly, from Amazon, B&N, or any other bookseller. Though, for what it's worth, would have appreciated if the review actually went into what the book is *about*. What does Prof. Lunning actually say about cosplay? Does the author of the review agree with those points? |
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TaperW
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That was more or less my point when I was referring to "costuming"; I probably phrased it badly. |
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Alan45
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Back around 1960 when I was entering high school, some older guy gifted me a large stack of old monthly science fiction magazines from about a decade earlier. In the back of some issues were convention reports from NYC science fiction conventions. These included b&w photos of the "costume contest" These ran heavily to BEMs (bug eyed monsters) and space rangers (think Han Solo). So yeah, what we now think of as cosplay dates to at least the late 1940s, basically post WWII for the science fiction/fantasy fandom.
Interestingly, the letter columns in those magazines sounded very much like the forums here, including the same types of malcontents. |
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