{"id":1226,"date":"2018-04-14T15:17:38","date_gmt":"2018-04-14T19:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/?p=1226"},"modified":"2018-04-14T15:17:38","modified_gmt":"2018-04-14T19:17:38","slug":"fans-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/2018\/04\/14\/fans-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 800px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1226-1\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/files\/2018\/04\/fans.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/files\/2018\/04\/fans.mp4\">https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/files\/2018\/04\/fans.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>This week, we read about fans and the implications of these communities on society. While reading in\u00a0<em>Keywords,\u00a0<\/em>I noticed the quote, &#8220;<span class=\"s1\">Recently, fandom has been discussed in terms of performativity, as participants act out or embody particular identities, display particular emotions, or demonstrate their mastery over shared fictions,&#8221; (Jenkins, 66). This immediately made me think of the fandom communities that exist in the world of cosplay. I found an outside source, a scholarly article called,\u00a0<em>Expressions of Fandom: Findings from a Psychological Survey of Cosplay and Costume Wear.\u00a0<\/em>The quotes I used here were, &#8220;<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Cosplay, short for &#8216;costume-play&#8217;, is the modern practice of wearing costumes, props, and accessories to represent a character,&#8221; (Rosenberg, 9), and &#8220;<\/span><span class=\"s1\">The purposes of cosplaying can vary, but include the expression of adoration of the character, enjoying attention or approval from audiences\/peers, and experiencing the creative process of the costume construction,&#8221; (Rosenberg, 9). These quotes helped tie my clips of interviews of fans dressed in cosplay with the\u00a0<em>Keywords<\/em> quote. I tried to include a variety of costumes to show the range that people participate (usually to a high degree) in these conventions. I chose the song, &#8220;Barracuda&#8221; by Heart, because I felt it fit in with the fast paced beat and guitar sounds with the high energy and semi &#8220;hardcore&#8221; attitudes the cosplay participants displayed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, we read about fans and the implications of these communities on society. While reading in\u00a0Keywords,\u00a0I noticed the quote,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[46244],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fans"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}