Cosplay Subculture About Dress Fashion & Appearance Practice
Humanities
This assignment is to choose one historical or contemporary subculture and prepare a research brief that explains and interprets your research. Using library or academic sources, prepare a research document that describes your subculture’s origins, dress practices, political stance, and cultural activities.
The Subculture is Cosplay
Here are the components that should be included and the questions that should be answered:
– Origins:
Who was/is a member of this subculture? When and where did this subculture emerge?oHow did it develop? Did it grow out of or provide an alternative to existing subcultures?
– Dress Practices:
What do members of this subculture wear? What characterizes their appearance (hair, makeup, accessories, for example)? Has their look been adopted by the fashion industry – if so, how? Does dress differ according to gender, ethnicity, age, or location? If so, what are the differences?
– Political/Economic Stance
What values and opinions do members of this subculture demonstrate? What attitudes and ideas do they try to convey? How active/political are they? What class relationships do they express?oHow do their dress practices convey these values, ideas, attitudes, and opinions?
– Cultural Activities
What objects do members of this subculture use? What activities do they perform? How do their dress practices align with these objects and activities? (That is to say, why do they wear what they wear to do what they do?)(Think: homology and bricolage.)
– Images: Include at least two images that support your research. Include them at the end of your brief or alongside one of the components above. Cite the source of your images.
– Bibliography: Cite your sources according to Chicago style, and include every source that you use in a bibliography at the end of the brief. Use at least 5 to 7 separate sources, and limit non-scholarly sources.
Meeting Requirements:
– Including all four components (origins, dress practices, political/economic stance, cultural activities)
– Including two or more illustrative images of your subculture and properly citing their source
– Meeting word limit expectations (250-300 words per component, 800-1000 words overall)
– Including all four components (origins, dress practices, political/economic stance, cultural activities)
– Including two or more illustrative images of your subculture and properly citing their source
– Meeting word limit expectations (250-300 words per component, 800-1000 words overall)
– Appropriateness of sources
– Including and documenting any and all outside research using citations and quotations
– Including a bibliography listing all sources used in your research brief, formatted according to Chicago style
