DragonCon 2010 Interview with Steampunk Group

Interview by: Suzanne Barber and Matthew Hale
Audio and Video by: Suzanne and Matthew Hale
of Western Kentucky University's Graduate Program in Folk Studies and Anthropology

These interview clips and video segments are the raw footage of an ongoing documentary. This content is unedited (excepting portions where the camera gets all wobbly and whatnot). Feel free to email us any comments, questions, concerns, or suggestions for our documentary. The documentary we are working on at the moment will focus on the culture, aesthetics, and body rhetoric of DragonCon. That is, we are looking at Steampunk, Cosplay, Horror, Star Wars, Star Trek, Pirates, Anime, Comic Characters, Super Heroes, Super Villains, Video Characters, costuming, performance, parades, display, creativity, and so much more.

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Verbal consent was acquired from each participant, though this portion of each video clip was removed for our youtube.com content.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• DragonCon
• D*con
• Dragon Con
• Convention
• Fan Culture
• Pop
• Costuming
• Steampunk
• Steam
• Punk
• Alternate History
• Neo-Victorian
• NeoVictorian
• Victorian
• Culture
• Performance
• Documentary
• Atlanta
• Georgia
• Comics
• Super Hero

[skorchcommander]

1:12 i thought that guy was Louis from Left 4 dead for a second xD nice costumes =]

[marcuspinson]

the plague doctors mask is supposed to cover your mouth because it was very early form of gas mask (the beak was full of sacred herbs to "purify" the air in an area that the plague had affected) the doctors would also wear full length wax coton coats and thick leather gloves and would carry a special stick to hit sick people with to keep from being trampled by them