Cosplayers: uma identidade cultural permeada pela indústria cultural

Abstract

The present work carries out, through an ethnographic research, an analysis of the Cosplayer group and its relation with Cultural Industry inside the Comic Con Experience event, in order to perceive firstly how individual identities are constructed from the consumption of cultural productions, and secondly to grasp how these individuals understand this relationship and what elements are involved in it. It is based on a theoretical and methodological conceptual framework that permeates Cultural Anthropology and Sociology of Culture and that intends to discuss the way in which cosplay practice has spread in Brazil through a translation of cultural contents from countries such as the United States and Japan.