Mimetic fandom and one-sixth-scale action figures
Within material practices that emphasize reproduction, customizers often extrapolate, creating new material to fill in gaps. Bricolage transforms mass-produced items into individualized creative works by improving the perceived accuracy of licensed merchandise or by recycling and repurposing items t...
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| description | Within material practices that emphasize reproduction, customizers often extrapolate, creating new material to fill in gaps. Bricolage transforms mass-produced items into individualized creative works by improving the perceived accuracy of licensed merchandise or by recycling and repurposing items to achieve realistic and imaginative results. Customization's material fan practices reproduce items in order to create transformative narratives. After duplicating a beloved fan object's definitive appearance, clothing, and/or accessories in one-sixth scale, customizers often pose and photograph action figures in recreations of iconic scenes. Other images and photostories use miniature reproductions of material objects to rework existing media texts and characters or to tell completely original narratives. Images also disrupt and deconstruct the valorization of accuracy. Living rooms, pets, and other aspects of everyday life intrude into photographs of accurately reproduced items and characters. Figures in photostories may be made to break character. Such transformative moments call attention to the toys' status as toys and to the constructed nature of poses, dioramas, and narratives. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e2343c90c3cc4ac2ba5eb3d52b4f19672022-12-21T19:12:21ZengOrganization for Transformative WorksTransformative Works and Cultures1941-22581941-22582015-09-012010.3983/twc.2015.0686Mimetic fandom and one-sixth-scale action figuresVictoria Godwin0Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, Texas, United StatesWithin material practices that emphasize reproduction, customizers often extrapolate, creating new material to fill in gaps. Bricolage transforms mass-produced items into individualized creative works by improving the perceived accuracy of licensed merchandise or by recycling and repurposing items to achieve realistic and imaginative results. Customization's material fan practices reproduce items in order to create transformative narratives. After duplicating a beloved fan object's definitive appearance, clothing, and/or accessories in one-sixth scale, customizers often pose and photograph action figures in recreations of iconic scenes. Other images and photostories use miniature reproductions of material objects to rework existing media texts and characters or to tell completely original narratives. Images also disrupt and deconstruct the valorization of accuracy. Living rooms, pets, and other aspects of everyday life intrude into photographs of accurately reproduced items and characters. Figures in photostories may be made to break character. Such transformative moments call attention to the toys' status as toys and to the constructed nature of poses, dioramas, and narratives.http://dx.doi.org/10.3983/twc.2015.0686Action figure customizationAffirmational fandomBricolageMaterial cultureMaterial fan practices |
| spellingShingle | Victoria Godwin Mimetic fandom and one-sixth-scale action figures Transformative Works and Cultures Action figure customization Affirmational fandom Bricolage Material culture Material fan practices |
| title | Mimetic fandom and one-sixth-scale action figures |
| title_full | Mimetic fandom and one-sixth-scale action figures |
| title_fullStr | Mimetic fandom and one-sixth-scale action figures |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mimetic fandom and one-sixth-scale action figures |
| title_short | Mimetic fandom and one-sixth-scale action figures |
| title_sort | mimetic fandom and one sixth scale action figures |
| topic | Action figure customization Affirmational fandom Bricolage Material culture Material fan practices |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.3983/twc.2015.0686 |
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