Goth
Undead Subculture
1st Edition
Published on 11. April 2007
456 pages
978-0-8223-8970-5 (ISBN)
Description
An ethnography of a postpunk subculture.
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Persons
Lauren M. E. Goodlad is Associate Professor of English and a member of the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Victorian Literature and the Victorian State: Character and Governance in a Liberal Society.Michael Bibby is Professor of English at Shippensburg University. He is the author of Hearts and Minds: Bodies, Poetry, and Resistance in the Vietnam Era and the editor of The Vietnam War and Postmodernity.
Content
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
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
