Post-Millennial Gothic : Comedy, Romance and the Rise of 'Happy Gothic'.
| Author/creator | Spooner, Catherine, 1974- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2017. |
| Description | 1 online resource (233 pages) |
| Supplemental Content | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Cover; Half Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Figures; Introduction: Post-Millennial Gothic; Gothic summer; Post-millennial Gothic; Gothic in crisis; Culture of fear; Happy Goth; Comedy, romance and the rise of happy Gothic; Notes; 1 Consuming the Edible Graveyard: Gothic Lifestyles and Lifestyle Gothic; Everyday Gothic; Smiling Gothic people; Gothic taste; Dark arts; Lifestyle television; The taste of Gothic; Conclusion; 2 'The images, for me, are the story': Tim Burton's Gothic Aesthetics; The Gothic look; Burton's Gothic; Burton and production design. |
| Contents | Stripes and spirals: Burton's visual style burton to Burtonesque: A Series of Unfortunate Events and Crimson Peak; Conclusion; 3 'Forget Nu Rave, We're Into Nu Grave!': High Street Style and the Uses of Gothic Romance ; Defining Gothic fashion; The return of 'Gothic Chic'; Goth in the media; 'Pretty Goth'; Notes; 4 Gothic Charm School, or, How Vampires Learned to Sparkle; Sparkle; Rules; Goth; Charm; Assimilation; Notes; 5 Pretty in Black: The Goth Girl and the Whimsical Macabre; The Goth girl; Monstrous cute to whimsical macabre; Kinderwhore to feminist camp; Gothic Lolita. |
| Contents | Revising the romance in comics and animation conclusion; 6 'Happy Nights Are Here Again': Having a Laugh with Vampires and Other Monsters ; Post-millennial monsters; 'I never drink -- wine': Introducing vampire humour; The history of the comic vampire; The new camp vampire 1: 'A very silly play'; The new camp vampire 2: Drag-ula; Vampire friendship in What We Do in the Shadows and Vamps; 7 'I'm the Shoreditch Vampire': Making Over Goth Masculinities in Television Comedy ; Goth masculinities; Goth stand-up and comic personae; Making and unmaking Gothic subjects on television. |
| Contents | Introducing the sitcom Goth comic dandies in The Mighty Boosh; 8 'Swishing about and spookiness': Whitby and Gothic Literary Tourism from Bram Stoker's Dracula to Paul Magrs's Never the Bri; Gothic tourism; Tourism in Dracula; Tourism in contemporary Whitby; Paul Magrs's Whitby; Whitby Goth Weekend; Conclusion; Conclusion: Gothic Celebrations; Works Cited; Index. |
| Abstract | "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."--Bloomsbury Publishing. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Spooner, Catherine. Post-Millennial Gothic : Comedy, Romance and the Rise of 'Happy Gothic'. London : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, ©2017 9781441101211 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9781441160140 |
| ISBN | 1441160140 |
| ISBN | (ePub) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |