{"product_id":"goth-9780822339212","title":"Goth","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince 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. This title offers a collection of scholarly essays devoted to this enduring yet little examined cultural phenomenon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eGoth: Undead Subculture \u003c\/i\u003eis a very engaging read—a nice mélange of ethnographic anecdote, cultural criticism, and historical analysis—in which a multidisciplinary crew of contributors analyzes an important and complex subculture through its fashions, music, dancing, literature, sexual practices, aesthetic ideals, theatrical displays, historical precedents, and ideologies.”—Robert Walser, author of \u003ci\u003eRunning with the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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, \u003ci\u003eGoth: Undead Subculture\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eBeyond Sexuality\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \/ Lauren M. E. Goodlad and Michael Bibby 1\u003cbr\u003e I. Genders \u003cbr\u003e Dark Admissions: Gothic Subculture and the Ambivalence of Misogyny and Resistance \/ Joshua Gunn 41\u003cbr\u003e Queens of the Damned: Women and Girls’ Participation in the Two Gothic Subcultures \/ Kristen Schilt 65\u003cbr\u003e Peri Gothous: On the Art of Gothicizing Gender \/ Trevor M. Holmes 79\u003cbr\u003e Men in Black: Androgyny and Ethics in \u003ci\u003eThe Crow \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eFight Club\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Lauren M. E. Goodlad 89\u003cbr\u003e II. Performances \u003cbr\u003e This Modern Goth (Explains Herself) \/ Rebecca Schraffenberger 121\u003cbr\u003e Playing Dress Up: David Bowie and the Roots of Goth \/ David Shumway and Heather Arnet 129\u003cbr\u003e Undead Fashion: Nineties Style and the Perennial Return of Goth \/ Catherine Spooner 143\u003cbr\u003e “Goth Damage” and Melancholia: Reflections on Posthuman Gothic Identities \/ Michael du Plessis 155\u003cbr\u003e III. Localities \u003cbr\u003e “To commit suicide in Buffalo is redundant”: Music and Death in Zero City, 1982–84 \/ Mark Nowak 171\u003cbr\u003e “Ah am witness to its authenticity”: Gothic Style in Postmodern Southern Writing \/ Jason K. Friedman 190\u003cbr\u003e The (Un)Australian Goth: Notes toward a Dislocated National Subject \/ Ken Gelder 217\u003cbr\u003e IV. Artifacts \u003cbr\u003e Atrocity Exhibitions: Joy Division, Factory Records, and Goth \/ Michael Bibby 233\u003cbr\u003e Material Distinctions: A Conversation with Valerie Steele \/ Jessica Burstein 257\u003cbr\u003e Geek\/Goth: Remediation and Nostalgia in Tim Burton’s \u003ci\u003eEdward Scissorhands \u003c\/i\u003e\/ Robert Markley 277\u003cbr\u003e The Authentic Dracula: Bram Stoker’s Hold on Vampiric Genres \/ Nancy Gagnier 293\u003cbr\u003e V. Communities \u003cbr\u003e “When you kiss me, I want to die”: \u003ci\u003eBuffy the Vampire Slayer \u003c\/i\u003eand Gothic Family Values \/ Lauren Stasiak 307\u003cbr\u003e The Cure, the Community, the Contempt! \/ Angel M. Butts 316\u003cbr\u003e “We are all individuals, but we’ve all got the same boots on!”: Traces of Individualism within a Subcultural Community \/ Paul Hodkinson 322\u003cbr\u003e VI. Practices \u003cbr\u003e That Obscure Object of Desire Revisited: Poppy Z. Brite and the Goth Hero as Masochist \/ Carol Siegel 335\u003cbr\u003e God’s Own Medicine: Religion and Parareligion in U.K. Goth Culture \/ Anna Powell 357\u003cbr\u003e Gothic Fetishism \/ Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock 375\u003cbr\u003e The Aesthetic Apostasy \/ David Lenson 398\u003cbr\u003e References 405\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 425\u003cbr\u003e Index 429","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406045126999,"sku":"9780822339212","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/goth-9780822339212","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}