Cosplay & boundaries - a study of local cosplayers and how they use boundaries.

• Main Author: Nityanand Rai.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Culture
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/45095
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper deals with how cosplayers in Singapore build and maintain boundaries among themselves and society. It also looks at the symbolic boundaries that they use to maintain differences between themselves. Cosplay allows the expression characters from a variety of movies, anime and novels. The sy...