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Post-millennial gothic : comedy, romance and the rise of \'happy gothic\'.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London Continuum Publishing Corp, 2014Description: 213pISBN:
  • 1441101217
  • 9781441101211
DDC classification:
  • 306.1 GOT
Summary: Surveying the widespread appropriations of the Gothic in contemporary literature and culture, \'Post-Millennial Gothic\' shows contemporary Gothic is often romantic, funny and celebratory. Reading a wide range of popular texts, from Stephenie Meyer\'s \'Twilight\' series through Tim Burton\'s Gothic film adaptations of \'Sweeney Todd\', \'Alice in Wonderland\' and \'Dark Shadows\', to the appearance of Gothic in fashion, advertising and television, Catherine Spooner argues that conventional academic and media accounts of Gothic culture have overlooked this celebratory strain of \'Happy Gothic\'.

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Surveying the widespread appropriations of the Gothic in contemporary literature and culture, Post-Millennial Gothic shows contemporary Gothic is often romantic, funny and celebratory. Reading a wide range of popular texts, from Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series through Tim Burton's Gothic film adaptations of Sweeney Todd , Alice in Wonderland and Dark Shadows , to the appearance of Gothic in fashion, advertising and television, Catherine Spooner argues that conventional academic and media accounts of Gothic culture have overlooked this celebratory strain of 'Happy Gothic'. Identifying a shift in subcultural sensibilities following media coverage of the Columbine shootings, Spooner suggests that changing perceptions of Goth subculture have shaped the development of 21st-century Gothic. Reading these contemporary trends back into their sources, Spooner also explores how they serve to highlight previously neglected strands of comedy and romance in earlier Gothic literature.

Surveying the widespread appropriations of the Gothic in contemporary literature and culture, \'Post-Millennial Gothic\' shows contemporary Gothic is often romantic, funny and celebratory. Reading a wide range of popular texts, from Stephenie Meyer\'s \'Twilight\' series through Tim Burton\'s Gothic film adaptations of \'Sweeney Todd\', \'Alice in Wonderland\' and \'Dark Shadows\', to the appearance of Gothic in fashion, advertising and television, Catherine Spooner argues that conventional academic and media accounts of Gothic culture have overlooked this celebratory strain of \'Happy Gothic\'.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction
  • 1 Consuming the Edible Graveyard: Gothic Lifestyles and Lifestyle Gothic
  • 2 Delighting in Scariness: Tim Burton's Whimsical Macabre
  • 3 'Forget Nu Rave, We're Into Nu Grave!': High Street Style and the Rise of the Happy Goth
  • 4 Gothic Charm School, or, How Vampires Learned to Sparkle
  • 5 From Meat Cake to Monster High: Hyper-femininity, Rebellion and the Goth Girl as Commodity
  • 6 'Swishing about and Spookiness': Whitby and Gothic Literary Tourism from Bram Stoker's Dracula to Paul Magrs' Never the Bride
  • 7 'I'm the Shoreditch Vampire': Goth masculinities and comic dandies in The Mighty Boosh
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Catherine Spooner is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Lancaster University, UK. She is co-editor (with Emma McEvoy) of The Routledge Companion to Gothic (2007) and author of Contemporary Gothic (2006) and Fashioning Gothic Bodies (2004).

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