"A Jedi like my father before me": Social identity and the New York Comic Con [symposium]

Few venues exist for adults to play dress-up, with Renaissance festivals, comic and other media conventions, and live-action role-playing games comprising the bulk of these venues. This sort of behavior is expected of people in their formative years—children and teenagers—where they try on and recei...

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Published in:	Transformative Works and Cultures
Main Author:	Jen Gunnels
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Organization for Transformative Works 2009-11-01
Subjects:	omic Cons Community Cosplay Fan studies Generation X Identity Performance studies Sociology Star Wars
Online Access:	http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/161/110