Goth : undead subculture
Lauren M. E. Goodlad (Author), Michael Bibby (Editor)
Since it first emerged from Britain's punk-rock scene in the late 1970s, goth subculture has haunted postmodern culture and society, reinventing itself inside and against the mainstream. Goth: Undead Subculture is the first collection of scholarly essays devoted to this enduring yet little examined cultural phenomenon. Twenty-three essays from various disciplines explore the music, cinema, television, fashion, literature, aesthetics, and fandoms associated with the subculture. They examine goth's many dimensions - including its melancholy, androgyny, spirituality, and perversity - and take readers inside locations in Los Angeles, Austin, Leeds, London, Buffalo, New York City, and Sydney. A number of the contributors are or have been participants in the subculture, and several draw on their own experiences
1 online resource (x, 442 pages) : illustrations
9780822389705, 0822389703
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Dark admissions: gothic subculture and the ambivalence of misogyny and resistance / Joshua Gunn
Queens of the damned: women and girls' participation in two gothic subcultures / Kristen Schilt
Peri gothous: on the art of gothicizing gender / Trevor M. Holmes
Men in black: androgyny and ethics in The crow and Fight club / Lauren M.E. Goodlad
This modern goth (explains herself) / Rebecca Schraffenberger
Playing dress up: David Bowie and the roots of goth / David Shumway and Heather Arnet
Undead fashion: nineties style and the perennial return of goth / Catherine Spooner
"Goth damage" and melancholia: reflections on posthuman gothic identities / Michael du Plessis
"To commit suicide in Buffalo is redundant": music and death in Zero, City, 1982-1984 / Mark Nowak
"Ah am witness to its authenticity": gothic style in postmodern southern writing / Jason K. Friedman
The (un)Australian goth: notes toward a dislocated national subject / Ken Gelder
Atrocity exhibitions: joy division, factory records, and goth / Michael Bibby
Material distinctions: a conversation with Valerie Steele / Jessica Burstein
Geek/goth: remediation and nostalgia in Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands / Robert Markley
The authentic Dracula: Bram Stoker's hold on vampiric genres / Nancy Gagnier
"When you kiss me, I want to die": Buffy the Vampire Slayer and gothic family values / Lauren Stasiak
The Cure, the community, the contempt! / Angel M. Butts
"We are all individuals, but we've all got the same boots on!": traces of individualism within a subcultural community / Paul Hodkinson
That obscure object of desire revisited: Poppy Z. Brite and the goth hero as masochist / Carol Siegel
God's own medicine: religion and parareligion in U.K. goth culture / Anna Powell
Gothic fetishism / Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
The aesthetic apostasy / David Lenson
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
English