Pub Date : 2021-07-01DOI: 10.3366/gothic.2021.0096
Alissa Burger
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Pub Date : 2021-07-01DOI: 10.3366/gothic.2021.0089
J. Baker
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Pub Date : 2021-07-01DOI: 10.3366/gothic.2021.0091
Drago Momcilovic
This article argues that the modern music video at the dawn of the MTV era embraces a logic of the Gothic fragment. Mobilizing an archive of gothic archetypes of haunting and monstrosity, the music video of the early 1980s confronts anxieties about its unshaped aesthetic character and discursive placelessness and its strained connections to absent textual wholes, performance cultures, and marginalized histories. Through a close reading of four seminal music videos from this time period – The Buggles' Video Killed the Radio Star (1979), David Bowie's Ashes to Ashes (1980), Blondie's Rapture (1981), and Michael Jackson's Thriller (1983) – I argue that the early music video incarnates a tradition of production, circulation, and decoding that I want to call Music Video Gothic. This tradition expresses latent concerns about the music video's aesthetic borders and intertextual relations with cultural and career narratives.
本文认为，MTV时代初期的现代音乐录像包含了一种哥特片段的逻辑。20世纪80年代早期的音乐视频动员了哥特风格的令人难以忘怀和怪异的原型档案，直面了人们对其未成形的美学特征、话语的无场所性以及与缺失的文本整体、表演文化和边缘化历史的紧张联系的焦虑。通过仔细阅读这一时期的四部影响深远的音乐录影带——巴格斯乐队的《杀死广播之星》(1979)，大卫·鲍伊的《Ashes to Ashes》(1980)，Blondie乐队的《Rapture》(1981)和迈克尔·杰克逊的《Thriller》(1983)——我认为早期的音乐录影带体现了一种制作、传播和解码的传统，我想把这种传统称为“哥特式音乐录影带”。这一传统表达了对音乐视频的审美边界以及与文化和职业叙事的互文关系的潜在关注。
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Pub Date : 2021-07-01DOI: 10.3366/gothic.2021.0092
J. Round
This article uses a critical framework that draws on the Gothic carnival, children’s Gothic, and Female Gothic to analyse the understudied spooky stories of British comics. It begins by surveying the emergence of short-form horror in American and British comics from the 1950s onwards, which evolved into a particular type of girls’ weekly tale: the ‘Strange Story.’ It then examines the way that the British mystery title Misty (IPC, 1978–80) developed this template in its single stories. This focuses on four key attributes: the directive role of a host character, an oral tone, content that includes two-dimensional characters and an ironic or unexpected plot reversal, and a narrative structure that drives exclusively towards this final point. The article argues that the repetition of this formula and the tales’ short format draw attention to their combination of subversion/conservatism and horror/humour: foregrounding a central paradox of Gothic.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-01DOI: 10.3366/gothic.2021.0094
Megan Devirgilis
The Gothic short form in Latin America has yet to receive focused scholarly attention. Yet, despite no early Gothic novel tradition to speak of, the Gothic mode emerged in poetry and short fiction, representing particular anxieties and colonial/postcolonial realities specific to the region owing in part to a significant increase in periodicals. Focusing on two case studies – Clemente Palma's ‘La granja blanca’ (Peru, 1904) and Horacio Quiroga's ‘El almohadón de plumas’ (Uruguay, 1917) – this article will explore how Latin American authors classified as modern, modernista, and criollista were experimenting with Gothic forms, adapting the design of the traditional Gothic novel to intensify its effect and reach a wider readership. Demonstrating a particular influence of Poe, a unity of effect is created, one that suggests that the home is a place of horrors, not comfort, and the uniquely horrifying settings and plot ultimately challenge established moral codes and literary tendencies.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-01DOI: 10.3366/gothic.2021.0090
Kirstin A. Mills
This article examines the processes of fragmentation and haunting surrounding the explosion of competing translations, in 1796, of Gottfried August Bürger's German ballad ‘Lenore’. While the fragment has become known as a core narrative device of the Gothic, less attention has been paid to the ways that the fragment and fragmentation operate as dynamic, living phenomena within the Gothic's central processes of memory, inspiration, creation, dissemination and evolution. Taking ‘Lenore’ as a case study, this essay aims to redress this critical gap by illuminating the ways that fragmentation haunts the mind, the text, and the history of the Gothic as a process as much as a product. It demonstrates that fragmentation operates along lines of cannibalism, resurrection and haunting to establish a pattern of influence that paves the way for modern forms of gothic intertextuality and adaptation. Importantly, it thereby locates fragmentation as a process at the heart of the Gothic mode.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-01DOI: 10.3366/gothic.2021.0099
Sandra Aline Wagner
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Pub Date : 2021-03-10DOI: 10.3366/GOTHIC.2021.0075
James A. Green
The attractiveness of the ‘moving image’ to the gothic imagination has begun to receive scholarly attention from the perspective of videogames, and it has been argued that the digital medium renova...
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