Stranger than fiction: Fan identity in cosplay

Academic accounts of fan cultures usually focus on creative practices such as fan fiction, fan videos, and fan art. Through these practices, fans, as an active audience, closely interpret existing texts and rework them with texts of their own. A practice scarcely examined is cosplay ("costume p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nicolle Lamerichs
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Organization for Transformative Works 2011-09-01
Series:Transformative Works and Cultures
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.3983/twc.2011.0246