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Gothic Style(s), Gothic Substance

Gothic Manchester Festival Conference

Gothic Studies

 

Saturday 28th October 2017
No 70 Oxford Street
Tickets are £11.04 and available on eventbrite

Introduced and chaired by Dr Linnie Blake.

Is there substance to the Gothic’s many styles? Does the Gothic continue to reveal the great unspoken truths of our world? Did it ever? Is the Gothic anything more than a commercial product that may be sold, as a style, to a new generation of consumers? Was it always thus? What cultural function does Goth(ic) style possess? And how has this evolved from the Enlightenment to the neoliberal present?

This one-day conference will present 20-minute talks on all aspects of Gothic style. As such, topics may include, but are not confined to:

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Conference Schedule

8.50am-9.20am Registration
9.30am-11.10am

Panel 1A: Gothic Styles: Dreaming Otherwise (LB01)

  • Sue Chaplin: The Zombie Revolution Will Be Televised
  • Jonathan Greenaway: The Gothic & Capitalism: The Political Substance of Contemporary Horror
  • Eleanor Beal: ‘Up to this moment we have become the Scum of the Earth, the refuse of the World’: The Gothic Styles and Spiritual Substance of the Evangelical Emerging Church Movement

Panel 1B: Places, Spaces, Styles (LB02)

  • Joan Passey: Consuming Corpses, Coasts, and Carriages: Styling Gothic Cornwall
  • Alizée Cordez: Defining the Gothic Décor(s) Across the Channel
  • Bill Hughes: Goth Style and Gothic Mode: Subcultural Others and Transformed Genres in Paranormal Romance
11.10am-11.40am Break
11.40am-1.10pm:

Panel 2A: Film & Television (LB01)

  • Stephanie Reid: Contemporary Gothic’s A/W Style Guide: Spectral-Scarlet, Wound-Accessories, and Power-Dressing. 
  • Magdalena Grabias: Gothic in the Contemporary Polish Cinema and Television: Motives, Characters, Aesthetics
  • Margarita Georgieva: Two Bulgarian Neo-Gothic Films: Their Style, Substance and Gothic Origins

Panel 2B: Gothic Gaming (LB02)

  • Jon Garrad: Eternal Nineties: the Perennial Gothic of 'Grimdark' Games
  • Ash Darrow : The Sign of Life in a Digital Body: Video Games and Gothic Revival Architecture
  • Rick Hudson: Gaming the Gothic: Authoring a Monstrous Self
1.10pm-2.00pm Lunch (own arrangements)
2.00pm-3.50pm

Panel 3A: Gendering Gothic Styles (LB01)

  • Rachael Taylor: ‘“If you weren’t so good-looking, I should call you heartless”’: The Beautiful Monster in Late Victorian Gothic Fiction
  • Yvette Harvey: Crinoline and White Dresses: The Female Protagonist in Australian Gothic 
  • Chloé Alexandra Germaine Buckley: Styling Class: Performance, femininity and the female grotesque in Penny Dreadful
  • Jenevieve Van-Veda: 'The Geisha Ghost: The Historical, Aesthetic Substance Behind the Current 'Geisha Goth' Style.

Panel 3B Varieties of Gothic Style (LB02)

  • Alicia Edwards: House of 1000 Nightmares, or “It’s never too soon to start panicking”: Haunted House, ‘Haunting Kitsch’, and the American Gothic Imaginary.
  • Carys Crossen: ‘A Gothic sensibility in the bakery is not necessarily a good thing’: Gothic Food, Consumption and Sustenance in Gothic Fiction and Film
  • Rachid M’Rabty: Pessimism, Ligotti and the Style of Contemporary Gothic
  • Anna Powell: ‘Things that float and flop’ : the Anomalous Affects of Lovecraft’s Style
4.10pm-5.40pm

Panel 4 (Plenary): Gothic Subcultures (LB01)

  • Sam George: ‘Black Roses: The Representation and Appropriation of Sophie Lancaster from Broken Britain to Brexit (2007-17)’ 
  • Kate Harvey: Screaming Like a Siren: Subversion of Gothic Traditions in the music of Halestorm
  • John Nicholls: Sum and Substance: Style and Substance, Style Over Substance
5.40pm Closing Remarks
6.00pm Wine Reception and Book Launch (Café)

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