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Goths represent one of the most arresting, distinctive and enduring subcultures of recent times. The dedication of those involved to a lifestyle which, from the outside, may appear dark and sinister, has spawned reactions ranging from admiration to a larm. Until now, no one has conducted a full-scale ethnographic study of this fascinating subcultural group. Based on extensive research by an 'insider', this is the first. Immersing us in the potent mix of identities, practices and values that make up the goth scene, the author takes us behind the faade of the goth mystique. From dress and music

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Enacting Goth in Milan in the 1980s -- 1.1 Dark Enactments in Milan -- 1.2 The Uncharted Waters of Italian Spectacular Subcultures of the 1980s (and Beyond) -- References -- Chapter 2: The Research: Methods and Methodology -- 2.1 The Research: Approach and Methods -- 2.2 Theoretical Sampling: Introducing Our Protagonists -- 2.3 Towards a Grounded Theory: Practices, Subcultural Canon and Enactments -- 2.3.1 What Is a Practice, Anyhow? -- 2.3.2 Enactments -- References -- Chapter 3: Der Himmel Über Milan: The City of Milan in the Early 1980s -- References -- Chapter 4: Another No Future: From Anarcho-Punk to the Activist Enactment of Dark -- 4.1 Enacting Anarcho-Punk at the Virus -- 4.2 Conflicts of Canon and of Enactment: CCCP at the Virus -- 4.3 Creature Simili and the Helter Skelter -- References -- Chapter 5: A Batcave in Via Redi: The Music Club Enactment of Dark -- 5.1 The Dark Music Club Scene and the Hysterika -- 5.2 Constructing Dark Identities in the Music Club Enactment -- 5.3 Enacting Dark in Public Space -- 5.4 Towards a New Enactment of Dark -- References -- Chapter 6: Siberia: The Loner Enactment of Dark -- 6.1 Dark as a Bedroom Culture -- 6.2 Enacting Dark in Public, Alone -- 6.3 Enacting Dark in a Mediated Scene: Epistolary Exchanges -- 6.4 Enacting Dark in a Mediated Scene: Amen and the Other Fanzines -- References -- Chapter 7: Dark Canon -- 7.1 Assembling the Canon -- 7.2 Music -- 7.3 Literature, Cinema and the Arts -- 7.4 Style -- References -- Chapter 8: Conclusions: An Enactment Approach to Subcultures and Post-Subcultures -- References -- References -- Index.

In this book, Spracklen and Spracklen use the idea of collective memory to explore the controversies and boundary-making surrounding the genesis and progression of the modern gothic alternative culture. They suggest that the only way for goth culture to survive is if it becomes transgressive and radical again

In Goth's Dark Empire cultural historian Carol Siegel provides a fascinating look at Goth, a subculture among Western youth. It came to prominence with punk performers such as Marilyn Manson and was made infamous when it was linked (erroneously) to the Columbine High School murders. While the fortunes of Goth culture form a portion of this book's story, Carol Siegel is more interested in pursuing Goth as a means of resisting regimes of sexual normalcy, especially in its celebration of sadomasochism (S/M)

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Haunted Epistemologies -- 2. Live Burial -- 3. Monstrosity -- 4. Sadomasochism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

A guidebook to the language of the most shadowy of subcultures, this work collects and defines more than 550 Gothic words and phrases. Compiled by an acclaimed Goth journalist and poet, this compendium provides insight into the unique vernacular of this fascinating community, describing in detail and with black humor the fashion, music, and lifestyle as well as sharing insider slang such as Baby Bat, Corp Goth, and the Gothic Two-Step. A Goth Band Family Tree and essential Goth listening, reading, and viewing recommendations are also included in this phantasmagorical work

Part I: Folklore From Europe and the Americas -- Part II: The Vampire and 19th Century Gothic -- Part III: The Female Vampire in 19th Century Literature -- Part IV: The Vampire on Film to WWII -- Part V: The Vampire on Film Post-WWII -- Part VI: The 20th Century Literary Vampire -- Part VII: Science Fiction Vampires -- Part VIII: European Vampires -- Part IX: Vampires From Asia -- Part X: Vampires of the Americas -- Part XI: Middle East, Africa and Australasia -- Part XII: The Vampire and Identity -- Part XIII: Queer Vampires and Sexploitation -- Part XIV: Female Vampires in the 20th Century and Beyond -- Part XV: Vampires in Children's Media -- Part XVI: Transmedia Vampires -- Part XVII: Living the Vampire: Tourism, Fandom, and Lifestyles -- Part XVIII: Vampires and Being in the World -- Part XIX: Vampire Franchises -- Part XX: The Post Human Vampire.

Introduction: A Grotesque Modern Moment -- Chapter One: Joseph Conrad: Bodily Authority -- Chapter Two: Wyndham Lewis: Reading Below the Skin -- Chapter Three: T.S. Eliot: The City as Poet -- Chapter Four: Djuna Barnes: The Female Abject of Desire -- Conclusion: The Modern Grotesque Body.

1.Introduction: "Avaunt! and quit my sight! let the earth hide thee!" Loss;Guilt;The Uncanny;Derridean Hauntology;Recent Hauntology Studies;Outline of the chapters -- 2. "Penelope was not a phantom": Everyday Hauntology in Alice Munro and Margaret Atwood:Margaret Atwood, "Death by Landscape"Surfacing -- 3. "His eye spoke less than his lip": Hauntology, Vampires and the Trace of the Animal in John Polidori's The Vampyre, John Ajvide Lindqvist's Let the Right One In, Octavia E. Butler's Fledgling and Guillermo del Toro's Cronos.;Let the Right One In;Fledgling;Cronos -- 4. "Nothing is but what is not": Spectral Temporality and Hauntology in Selected Works by Edgar Allan Poe;"The Tell-Tale Heart";"The Imp of the Perverse";"The Black Cat";"The Gold Bug" -- 5. "[T]he grey pool and its blank haunted edge": The Hauntology of Indeterminacy in Henry James's The Turn of the Screw -- 6. "Light is dark and dark is light": H. P. Lovecraft and Hauntology as Epistemological Desire -- "The Lurking Fear";"The Music of Erich Zann";"The Haunter of the Dark";The Believing Atheist -- 7. "What she had seen was final": Everyday Hauntology, the Threat of Male Violence and the Power of Fiction in Alice Munro's "Free Radicals", "Runaway" and "Passion";"Free Radicals";"Runaway";"Passion" -- 8. Concluding Remarks: "I can feel my lost child surfacing within me".

1 From Time's Beginnings -- 2 The Cinematic Vampire 1896–1922: Vampire Bats and Vamps and Thieves -- 3 The Vampire as Spirit of Fire: Leopold and Theodore Wharton's The Mysteries of Myra (1916) -- 4 Count Merlin and the Alchemy of Blood Lust: Alexander Korda's Mágia/Magic (1917) -- 5 The Blood-Demon and the Scientist: Erich Kober's Lilith und Ly / Lilith and Ly (1919) -- 6 Dreaming in the Madhouse Károly Lajthay's Drakula halála / Dracula's Death (1921) -- 7 Counterfeits and Genuine -- 8 F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu.

In Gothic Queer Culture, Laura Westengard proposes that contemporary U.S. queer culture is gothic at its core. Using interdisciplinary cultural studies to examine the gothicism in queer art, literature, and thought - including ghosts embedded in queer theory, shadowy crypts in lesbian pulp fiction, monstrosity and cannibalism in AIDS poetry, and sadomasochism in queer performance - Westengard argues that during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries a queer culture has emerged that challenges and responds to traumatic marginalization by creating a distinctly gothic aesthetic. Gothic Queer Culture examines the material effects of marginalization, exclusion, and violence and explains why discourse around the complexities of genders and sexualities repeatedly returns to the gothic. Westengard places this queer knowledge production within a larger framework of gothic queer culture, which inherently includes theoretical texts, art, literature, performance, and popular culture. By analyzing queer knowledge production alongside other forms of queer culture, Gothic Queer Culture enters into the most current conversations on the state of gender and sexuality, especially debates surrounding negativity, anti-relationalism, assimilation, and neoliberalism. It provides a framework for understanding these debates in the context of a distinctly gothic cultural mode that acknowledges violence and insidious trauma, depathologizes the association between trauma and queerness, and offers a rich counterhegemonic cultural aesthetic through the circulation of gothic tropes.