Cosplay and cosplayers: when the pop culture is seriously taken by Barbara Heller

Subjects: “…cosplay, animês, flânerie, consumo, memória…”
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Cosplay & boundaries - a study of local cosplayers and how they use boundaries. by Nityanand Rai.

“…This paper deals with how cosplayers in Singapore build and maintain boundaries among themselves and society. …”
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Cosplay e cosplayers: quando a cultura pop é levada a sério by Barbara Heller

Subjects: “…cosplay…”
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Self-Identification in Malaysian Cosplay by Eriko Yamato

“…To examine cosplay (costume play) as performed by non-Japanese cosplayers, video interviews were conducted at five Japanese popular culture conventions in Malaysia. …”
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Cosplaying the media mix: Examining Japan's media environment, its static forms, and its influence on cosplay by Matthew Ogonoski

“…Cosplay was prominently established in Japan before gaining attention in North America. …”
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Performances of innocence and deviance in Disney cosplaying by Maria Patrice Amon

“…Their cosplaying transmutes normative innocence via performative fan practice.…”
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Cosplay-playing with costumes…and gender norms? by Lee, Joanne Suyen.

“…My objective was to discover why female cosplayers [those who dress up as Japanese anime (cartoon) and manga (comic) characters] cross-dress in cosplay, thus becoming “crossplayers”. …”
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KOMUNITAS COSPLAY (Studi Tentang Kaum Muda Yogyakarta dalam Mengimitasi Cosplay dalam Budaya Pop Jejepangan) by , DITYA ASRI P, , Drs. Suharman, M.Si.

“…After analizing the data, the writer got that imitation process in cosplay activity should made the cosplayers to act and imitate the figures of Japanese pop culture as real as the costume to the characters. …”

Tailored Translations—Translating and Transporting Cosplay Costumes by Emerald L. King

“…Since the early 1980s the popularity of fan made cosplay (costume play) costumes has spread through fan and alternative cultural communities globally. …”
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Stranger than fiction: Fan identity in cosplay by Nicolle Lamerichs

“…A practice scarcely examined is cosplay ("costume play"), in which fans produce their own costumes inspired by fictional characters. …”
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Analisis Visual pada Karakteristik Cosplay Berhijab by Anisa Nada Suksmono, Andrian Dektisa Hagijanto, Mendy Hosana Malkisedek

Subjects: “…cosplay berhijab…”

"Can I take your picture?": Privacy in cosplay by Babak Zarin

“…In this piece I examine the privacy concerns faced by costume players, or cosplayers, as a means of beginning to examine the question of how privacy can still exist in an increasingly public world. …”
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Personality, behavioral, and social heterogeneity within the cosplay community by Robin S. Rosenberg, Andrea M. Letamendi

“…In an exploratory study that surveyed 929 demographically diverse self-identified adult cosplayers about extraversion and behavioral and social aspects of cosplay, respondents completed a thirty-four-item self-report questionnaire regarding demographic information, cosplay behavior, and the ten extraversion items from the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire-Revised Short Form (EPQR-S). …”
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Circulation of artifacts among cosplayers in Belo Horizonte and Vitória by Mônica Rebecca Ferrari Nunes

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The creative empowerment of body positivity in the cosplay community [symposium] by Jordan Kass Lome

“…In a case study about the cosplay community in relation to creative empowerment of identity and body positivity, I created a blog (http://cosplaycasestudy.tumblr.com/) and devised a survey that allowed cosplayers whom I met online and in person to discuss what cosplay meant to them as individuals. …”
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Cosplay on Demand? Instagram, OnlyFans, and the Gendered Fantrepreneur by Lauren Rouse, Anastasia Salter

“…Through a sample analysis of 50 cosplayers, this case study considers the approaches of cosplayers on integrating OnlyFans as part of a multiplatform struggle for economic viability. …”
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Beyond a costume : parasocial interaction & identification in cosplaying. by Tee, Yock Sian.

“…The study also briefly examines the cosplay subculture in Singapore. The study is based on in-depth interviews with 25 cosplayers in Singapore as well as field observations of cosplay conventions in Singapore. …”
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Male cosplay photographers : technology and the reconstruction of hegemonic masculinity by Tan, Sze Meng

“…Within the academic literature on the subculture of cosplay, the significance of the cosplay photographers (CPs) has been largely ignored. …”
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Interpersonal relationships, sexual life, bodily experience and on-line activity: a comparative study between adolescent and young adult cosplayers and non-cosplayers. by Eugenia della Valle, Marzia Rossetti, Daniela Cantone

“…We have conducted a comparative study between a population of Italian young adults who practise the Cosplay and a group of 'non-cosplayers', exploring several topics such as interpersonal relationships, on-line activity, sexual life and bodily experience in order to contribute to the nationwide understanding of this phenomenon which is still at its beginning. …”
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On [dis]play: Outlier resistance and the matter of racebending superhero cosplay by Ellen Kirkpatrick

“…Through the lenses of ethno- and Afrofuturism, it unpacks racebending cosplay: an embodied costuming practice—anchored in broader activist traditions of racebending—that reworks the source character's established race and ethnicity. …”
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