Cosplay and Costume: The Aesthetics and Politics of the Body the Cosplayer in Popular Culture

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10.2991/978-2-38476-140-1_13How to use a DOI?

Keywords

aesthetics; cosplay; cosplayer; politics of body

Abstract

Cosplayers are attached to various costume designs and accessories that often fascinated the audience. The desire to become a character according to the original characters often pushes cosplayers to make costumes and accessories that seem very complicated. Not infrequently, this costume exposes certain body parts of the cosplayer. Costume and body become one unit that is used as a tool to show self-identity and body control. This research examines the relationship between the body and cosplay costumes which symbolize the aesthetics and politics of the body. This research is a qualitative descriptive study that uses the perspective of aesthetics and body politics. The methods used are observation, interviews, and questionnaires with cosplayers who are members of the community in Banyumas. This study aims to determine the aesthetic value of costumes and body appearance in cosplay from the perspective of cosplayers. The results of the analysis found aesthetic forms and body politics in cosplay. Coplay aesthetics included the form of the costume, namely the complexity, simplicity, and color of the costume; mix and match costumes-accessories-make up, and harmonization of the movements and characters of the cosplayer with the character. In the relation between cosplay and body politics, it is found that costumes and bodies are used as tools to show self-identity, body control, as well as cultural agents.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Diana Puspitasari
AU  - Yudi Suryadi
AU  - Heri Widodo
AU  - Nadia Wirda Ummah
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/11/07
TI  - Cosplay and Costume: The Aesthetics and Politics of the Body the Cosplayer in Popular Culture
BT  - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Language, Linguistics, and Literature (COLALITE 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 114
EP  - 125
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-140-1_13
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-140-1_13
ID  - Puspitasari2023
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