"Goth creates its distinctive way of life by appropriating materials from a vast array of cultural phenomena--post-punk music, gothic literary tradition, pre-Christian mythology, sexual nonconformity, aesthetic avant-gardes--all of which it adopts primarily as style. Goth style is thus both dizzyingly heterogeneous and instantly recognizable. It is hard to imagine a single book that could do this subculture justice; yet by assembling contributors from a range of disciplines and judiciously including many voices of subcultural participants themselves, "Goth: Undead Subculture" manages to…mehr
"Goth creates its distinctive way of life by appropriating materials from a vast array of cultural phenomena--post-punk music, gothic literary tradition, pre-Christian mythology, sexual nonconformity, aesthetic avant-gardes--all of which it adopts primarily as style. Goth style is thus both dizzyingly heterogeneous and instantly recognizable. It is hard to imagine a single book that could do this subculture justice; yet by assembling contributors from a range of disciplines and judiciously including many voices of subcultural participants themselves, "Goth: Undead Subculture" manages to depict, while also reflecting critically on, this subculture's enduring appeal. This collection will be the definitive work on its topic."--Tim Dean, author of "Beyond Sexuality"
Acknowledgments ix Introduction / Lauren M. E. Goodlad and Michael Bibby 1 I. Genders Dark Admissions: Gothic Subculture and the Ambivalence of Misogyny and Resistance / Joshua Gunn 41 Queens of the Damned: Women and Girls’ Participation in the Two Gothic Subcultures / Kristen Schilt 65 Peri Gothous: On the Art of Gothicizing Gender / Trevor M. Holmes 79 Men in Black: Androgyny and Ethics in The Crow and Fight Club / Lauren M. E. Goodlad 89 II. Performances This Modern Goth (Explains Herself) / Rebecca Schraffenberger 121 Playing Dress Up: David Bowie and the Roots of Goth / David Shumway and Heather Arnet 129 Undead Fashion: Nineties Style and the Perennial Return of Goth / Catherine Spooner 143 “Goth Damage” and Melancholia: Reflections on Posthuman Gothic Identities / Michael du Plessis 155 III. Localities “To commit suicide in Buffalo is redundant”: Music and Death in Zero City, 1982–84 / Mark Nowak 171 “Ah am witness to its authenticity”: Gothic Style in Postmodern Southern Writing / Jason K. Friedman 190 The (Un)Australian Goth: Notes toward a Dislocated National Subject / Ken Gelder 217 IV. Artifacts Atrocity Exhibitions: Joy Division, Factory Records, and Goth / Michael Bibby 233 Material Distinctions: A Conversation with Valerie Steele / Jessica Burstein 257 Geek/Goth: Remediation and Nostalgia in Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands / Robert Markley 277 The Authentic Dracula: Bram Stoker’s Hold on Vampiric Genres / Nancy Gagnier 293 V. Communities “When you kiss me, I want to die”: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Gothic Family Values / Lauren Stasiak 307 The Cure, the Community, the Contempt! / Angel M. Butts 316 “We are all individuals, but we’ve all got the same boots on!”: Traces of Individualism within a Subcultural Community / Paul Hodkinson 322 VI. Practices That Obscure Object of Desire Revisited: Poppy Z. Brite and the Goth Hero as Masochist / Carol Siegel 335 God’s Own Medicine: Religion and Parareligion in U.K. Goth Culture / Anna Powell 357 Gothic Fetishism / Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock 375 The Aesthetic Apostasy / David Lenson 398 References 405 Contributors 425 Index 429
Acknowledgments ix Introduction / Lauren M. E. Goodlad and Michael Bibby 1 I. Genders Dark Admissions: Gothic Subculture and the Ambivalence of Misogyny and Resistance / Joshua Gunn 41 Queens of the Damned: Women and Girls’ Participation in the Two Gothic Subcultures / Kristen Schilt 65 Peri Gothous: On the Art of Gothicizing Gender / Trevor M. Holmes 79 Men in Black: Androgyny and Ethics in The Crow and Fight Club / Lauren M. E. Goodlad 89 II. Performances This Modern Goth (Explains Herself) / Rebecca Schraffenberger 121 Playing Dress Up: David Bowie and the Roots of Goth / David Shumway and Heather Arnet 129 Undead Fashion: Nineties Style and the Perennial Return of Goth / Catherine Spooner 143 “Goth Damage” and Melancholia: Reflections on Posthuman Gothic Identities / Michael du Plessis 155 III. Localities “To commit suicide in Buffalo is redundant”: Music and Death in Zero City, 1982–84 / Mark Nowak 171 “Ah am witness to its authenticity”: Gothic Style in Postmodern Southern Writing / Jason K. Friedman 190 The (Un)Australian Goth: Notes toward a Dislocated National Subject / Ken Gelder 217 IV. Artifacts Atrocity Exhibitions: Joy Division, Factory Records, and Goth / Michael Bibby 233 Material Distinctions: A Conversation with Valerie Steele / Jessica Burstein 257 Geek/Goth: Remediation and Nostalgia in Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands / Robert Markley 277 The Authentic Dracula: Bram Stoker’s Hold on Vampiric Genres / Nancy Gagnier 293 V. Communities “When you kiss me, I want to die”: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Gothic Family Values / Lauren Stasiak 307 The Cure, the Community, the Contempt! / Angel M. Butts 316 “We are all individuals, but we’ve all got the same boots on!”: Traces of Individualism within a Subcultural Community / Paul Hodkinson 322 VI. Practices That Obscure Object of Desire Revisited: Poppy Z. Brite and the Goth Hero as Masochist / Carol Siegel 335 God’s Own Medicine: Religion and Parareligion in U.K. Goth Culture / Anna Powell 357 Gothic Fetishism / Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock 375 The Aesthetic Apostasy / David Lenson 398 References 405 Contributors 425 Index 429
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