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Tag Archives: gothic tropes
Bela Lugosi’s (still) Dead: 1979 – 2019
Nine and a half minutes of exploratory, indulgent and spine-tingling music courtesy of the most recognizable post-punks going – the Bauhaus anthem “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” was released this day exactly forty years ago. Continue reading
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Tagged anniversary, Bauhaus, goth rock, gothic tropes, history, links, music, tradgoth
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“A Place Both Wonderful And Strange” – Geography through a Goth lens
The TV adaption of Neil Gaiman’s acclaimed fantasy novel American Gods has been unreal and amazing so far. It would be so easy to mangle this complex combination of subtle themes and sly allusions, but Starz seem to have come … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Andrew Eldritch, bands, david lynch, Dracula, fun, gothic tropes, leeds, links, mainstream, media, music, nick cave, nightclub, personal, response, the sisters of mercy, the x files, TV, twin peaks, vampires
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Goth Space Nine: The Dark Side of Star Trek
Happy Birthday to Star Trek, which turns fifty this year. The definitive sci-fi TV show, it codified tropes that would influence all subsequent creativity in the field that followed. Of course, it also adopted familiar themes and it is Deep … Continue reading
