Cosplay: Intertextuality, Public Texts, and the Body Fantastic
This work examines how fans of popular culture forms materialize and embody various semiotic elements from mass mediated public texts through acts of replication, revision, and modulation in a practice know as cosplay. I argue for a more phenomenological approach to the study of fandom, participator...
| Veröffentlicht in: | Western Folklore. - Western States Folklore Society. - 73(2014), 1, Seite 5-37 |
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| Format: | Online-Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | English |
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2014
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Western Folklore |
| Schlagworte: | Behavioral sciences Arts Social sciences |
| Zusammenfassung: | This work examines how fans of popular culture forms materialize and embody various semiotic elements from mass mediated public texts through acts of replication, revision, and modulation in a practice know as cosplay. I argue for a more phenomenological approach to the study of fandom, participatory culture, and vernacular media reception and for increased intellectual exchange between media and cultural studies scholars and folklorists. |
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| ISSN: | 0043373X |