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Cosplayers : gender and identity / A. Luxx Mishou.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mishou, A. Luxx, author.
- Series:
- Routledge focus on gender, sexuality, and comics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cosplay.
- Fans (Persons).
- Role playing--Social aspects.
- Role playing.
- Identity (Philosophical concept)--Social aspects.
- Identity (Philosophical concept).
- Gender-blindness.
- Fantasy games--Psychological aspects.
- Fantasy games.
- Social aspects.
- Genre:
- Fantasy games.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 81 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- A. Luxx Mishou (she/her) is a queer femme Victorianist and gender studies scholar researching cosplay, comics, fashion, and the gothic. She holds a doctorate in Victorian literature and gender studies from Old Dominion University, where she defended her dissertation, Holy Stitches Batman: Performative Villainy in Gothic/am, in 2020. She earned an MA in English literature and language from the University of Maryland College Park (conferred in 2007), and a BA in English from Washington College (conferred in 2005). She has recently contributed chaptersto Fan Phenomena: Rocky Horror Picture Show (2015),Fashion and Material Culture in Victorian Fiction and Periodicals (2019), and Sartorial Fandom: Fashion, Beauty Culture, and Identity (forthcoming). Dr. Mishou has presented her research on masculinity in comics at the Northeast Modern Language Association conference (2015), on cosplay at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference (2017, 2019) and the Comics and Popular Arts Conference (2018), and on Alison Bechdel at the Modern Language Association conference (2018).She currently works as an adjunct and independent scholar.
- Contents:
- All the con's a stage: A study of (cos)players
- Setting the stage
- Limitations of cosplay research
- The (cos)players: Research methodology
- Man describes not me, nor woman neither: Cosplayers and the fiction of gender
- What's in a name? The drag debate
- On crossplay and identity: Asking for answers
- What do you have to say? Cosplayers on gender and identity
- On bodies and boundaries: Regulating fantasy in real spaces
- Peace-bound: Convention rules
- Regulating the cosplayer body
- A defense of "sexy" cosplays
- Manning: Minority identities and gatekeeping in cosplay
- Cosplaying while Black
- Othered narratives
- Internal memos: Gatekeeping within the cosplay community
- Cosplay and identity
- The cosplay's the thing.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 02, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Mishou, A. Luxx. Cosplayers
- ISBN:
- 9781000422535
- 1000422534
- 9781003152798
- 1003152791
- 9781000421781
- 1000421783
- Publisher Number:
- 40030651727
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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