Cosplay e Arte Visual: do personagem à fantasia

• Autor(a) principal: Bordonalli, Mariana Saraiva Alves
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFRN
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufrn.br/handle/123456789/38183
• topic: educação artística; cultura pop; personagem; fantasia; cosplay.; artistic education; pop culture; character; fantasy; cosplay.; CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES

This undergraduate thesis aims to present the cosplay practices and their interrelationships with the Visual Arts area from a local youth community and its regional interfaces. It was developed with support in these experiences and carried out from interviews and bibliographical survey on the cosplay practices in the city of Natal, RN and event promoted by cosplayer community in Fortaleza, CE. It is justified by the survey of the questions regarding an unexplored medium of expression, as well as a history of the experiences and aesthetic expressions adopted, contextualizing and affirming the peculiar characteristics of the activities inherent to the Cosplays, as well as their potential of insertion In the so-called Cultural Economics. Presentations and examples of the method of work, description of Cosplays characteristics, artistic production form, data on the accomplishment of the exhibitions, cosplay contests, parades and events of pop culture animation, other established activities are presented. So, the relevance of the role of cosplay as entertainment, in its condition of artistic activity and also of its cultural role, is based on its unfolding, its dynamics and possibilities, thus opening up ways for new readings, interpretations and reflections.