Books about Cosplay and Steampunk
- A Live Search in ALICE for "Cosplay or Steampunk"This link will take you to an up-to-date list of books in catalog.
Below are a few examples.
Costuming Cosplay: Dressing the Imagination by Call Number: e-bookISBN: 9781350035898Publication Date: 2018"Costuming Cosplay takes us from elaborately crafted DIY costumes to online fandoms, examining how the practice of portraying fictional characters from popular culture through dress and performance has become a creative means of expressing and playing with different identities."
Anatomy of Steampunk: The Fashion of Victorian Futurism by Call Number: Alden 6th floor Oversize GT596 .G58 2013xISBN: 9781937994280Publication Date: 2013" Originally conceived as a literary genre, the term 'steampunk' described stories set in a steam-powered, science fiction-infused, Victorian London. . . . Today the vibrance of steampunk inspires a wide range of individuals, including designers of high fashion, home sewers, crafters, and ordinary folks who just want to have fun. Steampunk fashion is not only entertaining, dynamic, and irreverent; it can also be colorful, sexy, and provocative."
Practical Fashion Tech by Call Number: e-bookISBN: 9781484216637Publication Date: 2016" What you will learn: The fundamentals of both the sewing and the technology aspects of wearable tech for fashion; How to make a memorable costume that reacts to its wearer or environment "
Productive Fandom by Call Number: e-bookISBN: 9789048528318Publication Date: 2018". . . this book offers a media ethnography of the digital culture, conventions, and urban spaces associated with fandoms, arguing that fandom is an area of productive, creative, and subversive value."
The Superhero Costume by Call Number: Alden 6th floor GT580 .B69 2016ISBN: 9781472595911Publication Date: 2015"This book provides the first interdisciplinary analysis of the superhero costume and investigates wide-ranging issues such as identity, otherness, ritual dress and disguise. Analysis focuses on the implications of wearing superhero costume, exploring interpretations of the costumed hero and the extent to which the costume defines his or her role."
Steampunk and cosplay fashion design and illutration by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781633229013Publication Date: 2015
Some Cosplay Websites
- Steampunk: WikipediaNote: Wikipedia has tagged this as needing more resources; why don't you help fix it?
- Cosplay Tutorial: Tutorial ListA web page that lists and tracks tutorials of many types from many places: how to make anything from a tutu to a four-handed bug.
- Anime Character DatabaseChoose the characteristics you desire and see a montage of characters to copy.
Also: Anime series finder by year, themes, edia.
Groups and Events
- ohayoconAnnual convention in Columbus, OH.
- Airship AthenaLocal Steampunk group on Facebook.
- Rathacon: Athens Pop Culture ConventionAthens has its own annual cosplay & pop culture event.
- The Society for Creative AnachronismWhile not actually Cosplay, the SCA recreate fantasy as well historic places and times. Costuming and character creation is a big part of their activity. Local chapter in the Midrealm.
- International Costumer's Guild"We welcome everyone with an interest in the art of costuming. Our members include historic re-enactors, professional, educational and community theatrical costumers, science fiction fans, renaissance festival participants, and a all those who are interested in the making, wearing and display of costumes."
Academic Articles
- Articles Plus Search for Academic SourcesThis search will provide an up-to-date list of scholarly articles from our databases.
- Cosplay Culture: The Development of Interactive and Living Art through Play Ashley Lotecki Ryerson University, alotecki@ryerson.caDissertation 2006: "This research analyzes cosplay from a North American standpoint, . . . It investigates ways that North American cosplayers take inspiration from two-dimensional or flat work to construct three-dimensional, living, interactive artwork through costume fandom. This study has gathered demographic information about North American cosplayers for the first time, to develop a clearer and more accurate portrayal of the individuals partaking in cosplay culture"
- Costume Play and Young Adults’ Socio-Economic Insertion Pathways in Japan Alexis H. Truong & Stéphanie Gaudet International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure volume 3, pages177–196(2020)"This article shows how young adults’ cultural practices in Japan have become a social trajectory whose study is essential to understanding the life journeys of youths. Costume play, or kosupure, is a form of popular culture mediation that facilitates young people’s social integration and fosters their sense of belonging. "
- Embodying Cosplay: Fandom Communities in the USAMA Thesis 2017. "Through this ethnography on cosplayers, I will identify the hidden
power structures, agency, and resistance or replication of hegemony in the community; by using a combination of interviews, participant observation, and auto-ethnography. "