Fashioning the Fantastical Self: An Examination of the Cosplay Dress-up Phenomenon in Southeast Asia
Fashioning the Fantastical Self: An Examination of the Cosplay Dress-up Phenomenon in Southeast Asia
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塑造奇幻自我：东南亚Cosplay装扮现象考察
DOI：
10.2752/175174113x13502904240776
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2013
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Anne Peirson
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Anne Peirson
摘要本文将探讨Cosplay的做法--香港和东南亚的年轻人穿着主题服装，扮演日本漫画(漫画)和动漫(动漫)、视频游戏和流行音乐乐队中的人物--作为探索这一活动背后动机的一种方式。社会互动理论和表演性和戏剧性的方法将被用来从玩家自己的角度仔细检查构建这种迅速全球化的现象的复杂性。在这样做的过程中，它将质疑为什么着装被用作逃离自我边界和获得多重身份的催化剂。这篇文章将讨论一项民族志研究的结果，该研究对香港、北京和东京的一些Cosplay进行了采访，这些人经常在公共场所和有组织的主题活动中穿着各种服装。研究问题包括：Cosplay参与者扮演另一个角色意味着什么；他们打扮的动机是什么；他们如何决定选择一个特定的角色；这是一种创造性的表达、反叛还是秘密或公开的自我表达；他们为什么以及如何利用着装来追求特定的幻想；以及性别社会化在这种服装中的作用。研究结果表明，扮成角色扮演者是一种多声音的体验，代表着不同的动机，包括重申身份，逃离已知的现实-试图找回童年时的“可爱”纯真，以及在亚洲背景下对一个明确的、令人放心的亚文化集体的明显、经常调解的坚持。
Abstract This article will examine the practice of Cosplay—the trend for young adults in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia to dress up in themed costumes assuming the personae of characters from Japanese comic books (manga) and animated cartoons (anime), video games, and pop music bands—as a means of exploring the motivations behind this activity. Social interaction theory and approaches to performativity and dramatism will be used to closely examine the complexities that construct this rapidly globalizing phenomenon from the player's own perspectives. In doing so, it will question why dress is used as a catalyst for escaping the boundaries of self and acquiring multiple identities. The article will discuss the outcomes of an ethnographic study where interviews were conducted with a selection of Cosplayers in Hong Kong, Beijing, and Tokyo who regularly dress in a range of costumes in public places and at organized themed events. Research questions included: what it means for Cosplay participants to assume another persona; what motivates them to dress up; how they decide to choose a particular character; whether it is a form of creative expression, rebellion, or secret or overt expressions of self; why and how they employ dress to pursue a particular fantasy; and the role of gender socialization in this type of costuming. Findings suggest that dressing up as a Cosplayer is multi-vocal experience representing varying motivations including the reaffirmation of identity, the escape from a known reality—in an attempt to recapture a “cute” childhood innocence, and the visible, often mediated, adherence to a defined and reassuring subcultural collective in the Asian context.