Together these essays demonstrate that while its participants are often middle-class suburbanites, goth blurs normalizing boundaries even as it appears as an everlasting shadow of late capitalism.
Stigmatized and relegated to the margins of Roman society, the Goths were violent “barbarians” who destroyed “civilization,” at least in the conventional story of Rome’s collapse.
What Is Goth? is a humorous, self-deprecating look at Goth culture from the inside out. Imagine The Preppy Handbook colliding with Charles Addams. Then add a lot more melancholy and...
A fiercely individualist Goth girl wakes up to discover that the whole world has gone Goth and she's actually -- gag -- popular.
Due to its passionate, extreme aesthetic, Goth culture remains both vibrant and vibrantly loved, and continually inspires new developments in pop culture. Both a starting place for newcomers and a...
That could equally be something worn by a goth from the eighties who became a pagan in the nineties, or a metaller who associates the pentagram with the cartoon-version of the Devil made popular in extreme metal (Spracklen, 2014, 2017b; ...
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...
In the fairy tale pastiche, 'The Curse of the Gargoyle Queen', John Gebbia frames the page with ornate borders featuring angels and roses or gargoyles and thorns depending on whether good or evil is uppermost in the story (Valentino and ...
After a close encounter with a bus, Alona Dare goes from homecoming queen to Queen of the Dead.
What was Goth and what happened to it? In this book, Siegel tracks Goth down, reveals the sources of its darkness, and shows that Goth as a response to the modern world has not disappeared but only escaped underground.