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Goth, undead subculture, edited by Lauren M.E. Goodlad and Michael Bibby

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Goth, undead subculture, edited by Lauren M.E. Goodlad and Michael Bibby

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-423) and index

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illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Goth

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bibliography

Oclc number

71790121

Responsibility statement

edited by Lauren M.E. Goodlad and Michael Bibby

Sub title

undead subculture

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

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

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