The Official Oh My Goth (13 Reasons You're a B-Rate Goth) Art Poster Print - 24" X 36"
This poster says at the top "The Official Oh My Goth! Top 13 Reasons You Know You're a B-Rate Goth!" These reasons include "Your fake fangs glow in the dark." This poster measures approx. 24" x 36" The goth subculture is a contemporary subculture found in many countries. It began in the United Kingdom during the early 1980s in the gothic rock scene, an offshoot of the post-punk genre. Styles of dress within the subculture range from death rock, punk, androgynous, medieval, some Renaissance and Victorian style clothes, or combinations of the above, most often with black attire, makeup and hair.
Goth: Undead Subculture
$25.95(USD)
Since it first emerged from Britain’s punk-rock scene in the late 1970s, goth subculture has haunted postmodern culture and society, reinventing itself inside and against the mainstream.
Goth: Undead Subculture is the first collection of scholarly essays devoted to this enduring yet little examined cultural phenomenon. Twenty-three essays from various disciplines explore the music, cinema, television, fashion, literature, aesthetics, and fandoms associated with the subculture. They examine goth’s many dimensions—including its melancholy, androgyny, spirituality, and perversity—and take readers inside locations in Los Angeles, Austin, Leeds, London, Buffalo, New York City, and Sydney. A number of the contributors are or have been participants in the subculture, and several draw on their own experiences.
The volume’s editors provide a rich history of goth, describing its play of resistance and consumerism; its impact on class, race, and gender; and its distinctive features as an “undead” subculture in light of post-subculture studies and other critical approaches. The essays include an interview with the distinguished fashion historian Valerie Steele; analyses of novels by Anne Rice, Poppy Z. Brite, and Nick Cave; discussions of goths on the Internet; and readings of iconic goth texts from Bram Stoker’s Dracula to James O’Barr’s graphic novel The Crow. Other essays focus on gothic music, including seminal precursors such as Joy Division and David Bowie, and goth-influenced performers such as the Cure, Nine Inch Nails, and Marilyn Manson. Gothic sexuality is explored in multiple ways, the subjects ranging from the San Francisco queercore scene of the 1980s to the increasing influence of fetishism and fetish play. 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.
Contributors: Heather Arnet, Michael Bibby, Jessica Burstein, Angel M. Butts, Michael du Plessis, Jason Friedman, Nancy Gagnier, Ken Gelder, Lauren M. E. Goodlad, Joshua Gunn, Trevor Holmes, Paul Hodkinson, David Lenson, Robert Markley, Mark Nowak, Anna Powell, Kristen Schilt, Rebecca Schraffenberger, David Shumway, Carol Siegel, Catherine Spooner, Lauren Stasiak, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
Goth: The Game of Horror Trivia
$15.99(USD)
Welcome to Goth-the game of pure gothic horror and morbid trivia. You and your ghoulish friends are invited to roll the bone and wander the graveyard. Your inquisitor will torture you with questions from five deranged cata-GORIES: there's Movie Mayhem, Music Macabre, Bloody Tales & Poetry, Alchemy, and Stiffs. EXAMPLES: Q. What was done with the ashes of Aleister Crowley? A: They were sent to his disciples. Q: Who released the gothically-toned landmark album 'Low' in 1977? A: David Bowie. Be the first to fill your plot with 13 gravestones, and you win! But beware your double-crossing, grave-robbing opponents! Includes 200 trivia cards, 52 tombstone tokens, 4 pawns, 1 die, and instructions. For 2 to 4 players ages 13 and up.
