Cosplay: identidades na hipermodernidade

• Autor(a) principal: Furukawa, Carolina
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/15273
• topic: Cosplay; Identity; Hipermodernity; Consumption; Young; Cosplay; Hipermodernidade; Consumo; Jovem; Identidade (Psicologia); Adolescência; Histórias em quadrinhos Japão; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA

The cosplay translated as "playing to fantasize" is an activity performed by some people in events that bring together fans of cartoons and stories in Japanese comics. Some of its participants dress up as the characters run these facilities and are called cosplayers. Unlike a costume party, they can then interpret the characters and usually, the choice is made on the basis of identification with them. This thesis aims to understand the phenomenon main cosplay as part of the hipermodernity world, which is attracting a growing number of followers in Brazil, and coming to be part of the identity of some of these young people. For this, I start presenting a brief overview on the current context marked by new technologies, dissemination of consumption, changes in family relationships, dilution of physical barriers and increasing sources of information, that caused profound changes in ways of being and acting in the world. It s important o emphasize the role of consumption, because with the decline of traditional structures that provided stable bases on which it supported the identities, they were becoming uncertain and fluid, and the world get ready to offer an enormous variety of objects of consumption that identity can be based on. As the cosplay involves the process of identification with the characters of Japanese entertainment, I show some characteristics of the stories in Japanese comics that are considered attractions of this material, and discuss the issue of youth and identity, and the importance of imagination, facts of this remarkable phenomenon. In order to understand this dynamic, it was created a focus group with five cosplayers, between 16 and 21 years old, residents of Rio de Janeiro, which contributed significantly to the discussion of all the work. Besides the fun and increasing skills in the manufacture of clothing, the social recognition emerged as one of the motivations for achieving the cosplays. This finding confirms the importance of interactions in the process of formation of the person. Another relevant figure has been suggested that by identifying with certain characters, the cosplayers just questioning their own attitudes, reinforcing it with the active role of these young people in the consumption of media products