Jorge Sandoval
THE THEATRICALITY OF THE EVERYDAY THROUGH COSTUME EXPRESSIONS OF FANDOM AND DRAG
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Jorge Sandoval's article-based dissertation, comprising six published research
texts, investigates the ways the male costumed body performs
theatricality in non-theatre settings. It does so by looking at costume
as a means of expressing non-normative gender, researched through two
distinct perspectives: the costume expressions of fandom and drag. More
specifically, the dissertation uses as cases studies: (i) the regalia of
fans of the Canadian football team the Saskatchewan Roughriders, and
(ii) drag display in both professional and amateur situations in Canada
and Finland.
Sandoval's research draws from theories
such as Peter Boenisch's (2012) concept of relational dramaturgy, Alan
Read's (1993) concept of theatricality and the ambit of the everyday,
John R. Suler's (2016) idea of performance and identity in social media,
Eric Anderson's (2005) and Amir-Ben Porat's (2010) research on
masculinities and fandom in sports, and Rachel Hann's (2017) concept of
normative dress and conscious othering. These voices inform my
understanding of the theatrical and emblematic potentialities of the
costumed material body in real life and the immaterial body in virtual
spaces, through acts of 'costuming' the self.
Read the thesis here