The Gothic in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture Pop Goth [Hardcover]

This interdisciplinary collection brings together world leaders in Gothic Studies, offering dynamic new readings on popular Gothic cultural productions from the last decade. Topics covered include, but are not limited to: contemporary High Street Goth/ic fashion, Gothic performance and art festivals, Gothic popular fiction from Twilight to Shadow of the Wind, Goth/ic popular music, Goth/ic on TV and film, new trends like Steampunk, well-known icons Batman and Lady Gaga, and theorizations of popular Gothic monsters (from zombies and vampires to werewolves and ghosts) in an age of terror/ism.

Introduction: PopGoth Now, Justin D Edwards and Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet1. Love Your Zombie: Horror, Ethics and (post)Humanity, Fred Botting 2. Vampires, Mad Scientists, and the Unquiet Dead: TV Ubiquity and the Gothics Own Demise, Linnie Blake3. Being Human?: Twenty-First Century Monsters, Monica German?4. The Monster, Within: Buffy the Vampire Slayerand the Anatomy of Redemption, Stephanie Marriott5. Vampirism, Monstrosity, and Negotiations of Race in Francis Lawrences I Am Legend, Dorothea Schuller6. Batman as PopGoth Icon, Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet7. Gothic, Grabbit, and Run: Carlos Ruiz Zaf?n and the Gothic Marketplace, Glennis Byron8. Adolescence and (Re)capitulation in Stephenie Meyers TwilightSeries, Rachael McLennan9. The Monstrous House of Gaga, Karen Macfarlane10. Spectral Liturgy: Of Goth Parties and Gothic Music, Isabella van Elferen11. Under their Own Steam: Autopoesis and Steampunk Culture, Gail Ashurst and Anna Powell12. Boo! to taboo : Burlesque, Circus, Walkabouts, and Museums of Curiousities, Emma McEnvoy13. Forget Nu Rave, Were Into Nu Grave!: Styling Gothic in the 21st Century, Catherine Slcf