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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Cosplay and the Problem of Marxism But Were Afraid to Ask (The Idea of A Cosplay- History, Portability, Artisanship and Commodity)

October 6, 2014 by mcgrewsadmin

Cosplayers Ryan and Janessa as Hiccup and Astrid. Salt Lake Comic Con, September 2014. Costumes made by Jeremy L. Bird. First place: Intermediate Category. Photograph courtesy Robert Hirschi, official cosplay competition photographer.

       I watched in admiration as our technical cosplay judges at this year's Salt Lake Comic Con actually got up out of their chairs and walked around to the front of their table to touch and get a closer look at the … [Read more...] about Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Cosplay and the Problem of Marxism But Were Afraid to Ask (The Idea of A Cosplay- History, Portability, Artisanship and Commodity)

Filed Under: art history, Comic Con, cosplay, cosplay contests, cosplay judges, costume and fashion history, costumes, social phenomena, Uncategorized Tagged With: Aaron Forrester, cosplay, cosplay contests, cosplay judges, cosplay techniques, costume and fashion history, Daniel Falconer, history of painting, Jennifer McGrew, Jeremy L. Bird, Kamui Cosplay, Lynsey Marie Mitchell, marxism, medieval theater, Melissa Spencer, performance studies, renaissance painting, salt lake comic con, social phenomena, Starship Troopers, Tia Dworshak, use value

Pilgrims and Partiers: Removing the Sting of Class Differences Between Comic Con Cosplayers

September 23, 2013 by mcgrewsadmin

Did security have to break up fistfights between battling Batmen? Did mean-girl manners rule the day amongst the dozens of Wonder Women at Salt Lake’s first annual, record-breaking Comic Con? Not that I heard much about … [Read more...] about Pilgrims and Partiers: Removing the Sting of Class Differences Between Comic Con Cosplayers

Filed Under: Comic Con, cosplay, costumes, social phenomena Tagged With: carnivale, cosplay, cosplay techniques, fandom, FanXperience, fundamentalism, Jennifer McGrew, lent, liberalism, Mormons, orthodoxy, Pilgrimages, religion and cosplay, salt lake comic con, social class, Victor Turner

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