Bibliography

Listed below is a compilation of articles and books that could be potentially insightful for this course. All of these texts are readily available online via UF's library database or elsewhere on the web through a quick Google search. While you are not required to use these texts in your research or writing, they may be useful to further investigate a specific topic related to Gothic representations in pop culture. If you find a relevant text not listed, please include the author and title (at the very least!) in a comment at the bottom of this page so it can be added to the bibliography.


Geographies

• Gagne, Isaac. "Urban Princesses: Performance and 'Women's Language' in Japan's Gothic/Lolita Subculture." Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. 18.1 (2008). 
• Gaylard, Gerald. "The Postcolonial Gothic: Time and Death in Southern African Literature." Journal of Literary Studies. 24.4 (2008). 
• Hughes, HJ. "Familiarity of the Strange: Japan's Gothic Tradition." Criticism-A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts.  42.1 (2000).
• Kokai, Jennifer. "Weeki Wachee Girls and Buccaneer Boys: The Evolution of Mermaids, Gender, and 'Man versus Nature' Tourism." Theatre History Studies. 31.1 (2011).
• Mclean, Gary D. "War on Terror: Continuing Wars Against Natives." Navajo Times. 45.14 (2006). 
• Murphy, Bernice. "The Suburban Gothic in American Popular Culture." Journal of American Studies. 45 (2011).
• Potter, Amy. "Voodoo, Zombies, and Mermaids: US Newspaper Coverage of Haiti." The Geographical Review. 99.2 (2009).

Criminology

• Aaronovitch, David. "All-American Gothic: Columbine High: A Suburban Horror Story." (1999). Link. 
• Branson, Allan. "African American Serial Killers: Over-Represented Yet Underacknowledged." The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice. 52.1 (2013).
• Dayan, Colin. "Legal Terrors." Representations. 92. 1 (2005). 
• Jarvis, Brian. "Monsters Inc.: Serial Killers and Consumer Culture." Criminology & Penology. 3.3 (2007).  
• McDonald, Dave. "Ungovernable Monsters: Law, Paedophilia, Crisis." Griffith Law Review. 21.3 (2012).
• The Week. "Pierced 'Goth' Kittens: Animal Cruelty?" (2011). Link. 

Music

• Chaney, Michael, Jason Lindquist. "The Gothic Aesthetics of Eminem." Gothic Studies. 9.1 (2007).
• Corona, Victor. "Memory, Monsters, and Lady Gaga."  The Journal of Popular Culture. 46.4 (2013).
• Gunn, Joshua. "Gothic Music and the Inevitability of Genre." Popular Music and Society. 23. 1 (1999). 
• Ines, Maria. "A Nomad Journey: An Encounter with Hip-Hop and Gothic in Paris." Fermentum. 18.52 (2008).
• Moyer, Matthew. "Unknown Pleasures: Gothic Rock." Library Journal. 135.2 (2010).  
• Nisr, Al. "Lana Del Rey: I Wish I Was Dead Already." Gulf News. Link. 
• Peirse, Alison. "Gothic Vancouver: Blood Ties and Vampire Television." Gothic Studies. 14.2 (2012). 
• Pickard, Joshua. "Record Bin: The Gothic Country Nightmares of Johnny Dowd's 'Pictures From Life's Other Side'." (2014). Link. 
• Rosen, Adam. "Who's Afraid of Lana Del Rey?" The Awl. Link.
• Tillet, Salamishah. "Strange Sampling: Nina Simone and Her Hip-Hop Children." American Quarterly. 66.1 (2014).
• White, Theresa Renee. "Missy 'Misdemeanor' Elliott and Nicki Minaj: Fashionistin' Black Female Sexuality in Hip-Hop Culture -- Girl Power or Overpowered?" Journal of Black Studies. 44.6 (2013). 

Health & Medicine

• Brock, Stephen. "Fear, Helplessness, and Horror in PTSD." Communique. 38.3 (2009).
• Masters-Zaleski, Lynn. "Night Terror." Pediatrics for Parents. 23. 11 (2007). 
• Monroe, Judy. "'Roofies': Horror Drug of the '90s." Current Health 2. 24.1 (1997).
• Schlesinger, Louis. "Celebrity Stalking, Homicide, and Suicide: A Psychological Autoposy." International J Offender Ther Comp Criminology. 50.1 (2006).
• Woolley, Jacqueline, Maliki Ghossainy. "Revisiting the Fantasy-Reality Distinction: Children as Naive Skeptics." Child Development. 84.5 (2013).

Film & TV

• Bishop, Kyle. "Dead Man Still Walking: Explaining the Zombie Renaissance." Journal of Popular Film and Television. 37.1 (2009). 
• Blair, Iain. "Gothic Images Reveal Darkness at Movies' Core." Daily Variety. 309.39 (2010).
• Jackson, Jeff. "Still Casting a Spell: 10 Things that You Can Learn from Harry Potter." Public Relations Tactics. 18.8 (2011).
• Jowett, Lorna. "True Blood: Investigating Vampires and Southern Gothic." Critical Studies in Television. 8.3 (2013). 
• Keetly, Dawn. "Stillborn: The Entropic Gothic of American Horror Story." Gothic Studies. 15.2 (2013).
• Livingston, Jay. "The Revenge Fantasy - Django Unchained and 12 Years a Slave." (2013). Link.
• "New York City Gets Freaked Out Zombies Vampires and Freaks Invade the Big Apple."   Link.
• Oxberry, Victoria. "'I Didn't Mean to Frighten You': The Disney Gothic." The Film Journal. 1.13 (2006).  
• Park, JCH. "Ghostliness in Asian Diasporic Film and Literature." Asian Studies Review. 35.1 (2011).
• Robertson, Judith. "What Happens to Our Wishes: Magical Thinking in Harry Potter." Children's Litearature Association Quarterly. 26.4 (2001).
• Sharrett, Christopher. "The Horror Film in Neoconservative Culture." Journal of Popular Film and Television. 21.3 (1993).
• Swan, Susan. "Gothic Drama in Disney's Beauty and the Beast: Subverting Traditional Romance by Transcending the Animal-Human Paradox." Critical Studies in Mass Communication. 16.3 (1999). 
• Thompson, Paul. "Maleficent Starring Angelina Jolie 'Scary Away Investors' as it is Thought to be too Horrifying for Disney Movie-Goers." (2014). Link.

Literature

• Borgia, Danielle. "Twilight: The Glamorization of Abuse, Codependency, and White Privilege." The Journal of Popular Culture. 47.1 (2014). 
• Bujdei, Carmen. "Feminine Monstrosity Reconsidered: Sirens, Mermaids and Giant Women in Contemporary English Novels." Echinox Journal. 3 (2002).  
• Crawford, Philip. "A New Era of Gothic Horror." School Library Journal. 54.10 (2008). 
• Kral, Francoise. "Postcolonial Gothic as Gothic Sub-Version? A Study of Black Australian Fiction." Gothic Studies. 10.2 (2008). 
• Martens, Rachel. "Underrated Literature? Try Gothic." (2014). Link.
• Way, Elizabeth. "Gothic Realities: The Impact of Horror Fiction on Modern Culture." Gothic Studies.15.2 (2013).
• Wisker, Gina. "Viciousness in the Kitchen: Sylvia Plath's Gothic." Gothic Studies. 6.1 (2004). 

Video Games

• Fantone, Laura. "Final Fantasies: Virtual Women's Bodies." Feminist Theory. 51.4 (2003).
• Kirkland, Ewan. "Gothic Video Games, Survival Horror, and the Silent Hill Series." Gothic Studies. 14.2 (2012).

Visual and Theatre Arts

• Bick, Tenley. "Horror Histories." African Arts. 43.4 (2010). 
• Gibbs, Robert. "Gothic Art for the 21st Century?" Journal of Art Historiography. 5 (2011).
• Hawkins, Joan. "Culture Wars: Some New Trends in Art Horror." Jump Cut. 51 (2009).
• Pitts, Lan. "Madame Frankenstein: Image Comic Goes Gothic Romance in Monster Twist." (2014). Link. 
• Webster, Andrew. "Fish, Fiends, and Fantasy: The Gothic Art of Ian Miller." (2014). Link. 

Academia/Education/Pedagogy

• Calafell, Bernadette. "Monstrous Femininity: Constructions of Women of Color in the Academy." Journal of Communication Inquiry. 37 (2013).
• Carrington, Victoria. "The Contemporary Gothic: Literacy and Childhood in Unsettled Times." Journal of Early Childhood Literacy. 12.3 (2012).  
• Ilmi, Ahmed. "The White Gaze vs. The Black Soul." Race, Gender & Class. 18.3/4 (2011). 
• Kruch, Mary Anna. "Slaying the MEAP Monster." Language Arts Journal of Michigan. 17.1 (2001).
• Matthew, Patricia, Jonathan Greenberg. "The Ideology of the Mermaid: Children's Literature in the Intro to Theory Course." Pedagogy. 9.2 (2009).
• Wilson, Robin. "Officials of Universities that Have Been Targets of Past Killers View U. of Florida Tragedies with Horror and Concern." The Chronicle of Higher Education. 37.2 (1990).
• Wisker, Gina. "Crossing Liminal Spaces: Teaching the Postcolonial Gothic."  Pedagogy. 7.3 (2007).

Religions

• Ingebresten, Edward. "Post-Colonial Gothic Dramas: Roman Catholicism and the Homosexual." Political Theology. 6.2 (2005). 
• Pinn, Anthony. "Black Bodies in Pain and Ecstasy: Terror, Subjectivity, and the Nature of Black Religion." Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions. 7.1 (2003).
• Shaw, Bradley. "Baptizing Boo: Religion in the Cinematic Southern Gothic." The Mississippi Quarterly. 63.3 (2010).

Politics

• Anden-Papadopoulos, Kari. "Body Horror on the Internet: US Soldiers Recording the War in Iraq and Afghanistan." Media Culture Society. 31.6 (2009).
• Chavez, Cesar. "Lessons of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." Link. 
• "Coping, or Not, With the Horror." National Journal. September 15, 2001. (This magazine article is about 9/11).
• Edwards, Erica. "Moses, Monster of the Mountain: Gendered Violence in Black Leadership's Gothic Tale."  Callaloo. 31.4 (2008).
• Holland, Steve. "Obama Say Kidnapping of Nigerian Girls Shows Man's 'Darkest Impulses'." Reuters. (2014). Link.  
• hooks, bell. "The Imperialism of Patriarchy." Link. 
• King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Letter From a Birmingham Jail." Link. 
• Obama, Barack. "I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother." Link. 
• Paton, Fiona. "Monstrous Rhetoric: Naked Lunch, National Insecurity, and the Gothic Fifties." Texas Studies in Literature and Language. 52.1 (2010). 
• Sager, Mike. "American Gothic." Esquire. 148.2 (2007). 
•  Valerius, Karyn. "A Not-So-Silent Scream: Gothic and the US Abortion Debate." Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies. 34.3 (2013). 
• Zizek, Slavoj. "On 9/11, New Yorkers Faced the Fire in the Minds of Men." The Guardian. Link. 

Fashion

• Chabbott, Sophia. "Gothic Romance: Teens Like a Mix of Goth and girly in their Accessories." WWD. 192.99 (2006).
• Dee, Brittney. "Fall 2014 Runway Trend Spot: Goth Fashion." (2014). Link.  
• Mackie, Vera. "Transnational Bricolage: Gothic Lolita and the Political Economy of Fashion." Intersections. (2009). 

Gender/Sexuality/Body Politics

• Cohen, Emily. "Kitschen Witches: Martha Stewart: Gothic Housewife, Corporate CEO." Journal of Popular Culture. 38.4 (2005). 
• Gamer, Michael. "Genre for the Prosecution: Pornography and the Gothic." PMLA. 114. (1999).
• Hudson, Dale. "'Of Course There Are Werewolves and Vampires': True Blood and the Right to Rights for Other Species." American Quarterly. 65.3 (2013).
• Jerslev, Anne. "The Mediated Body: Cosmetic Surgery in Television Drama, Reality Television and Fashion Photography." Nordicom Review. 27.2 (2006).
• Jones, Abigail. "Sex and the Single Tween." Newsweek. 162.4 (2014).
• Leadbeater, Bonnie, Gloria Wilson. "Flipper their Fins for a Place to Stand: 19th- and 20th-Century Mermaids." Youth & Society. 24.4 (1993). 
• McAlister, Elizabeth. "Slaves, Cannibals, and Infected Hyper-Whites: The Race and Religion of Zombies." Anthropology Quarterly. 85.2 (2012). 
• Messner, Michael. "Barbie Girls versus Sea Monsters: Children Constructing Gender." Gender and Society. 14.6 (2000).
• Patton, Stacey. "Who's Afraid of Black Sexuality?" The Chronicle of Higher Education. 59.1 (2012).
• Stiegel, Victoria. "Halloween and the Establishment of Gender Roles." (2012). Link. 
• Subramanian, Janani. "The Monstrous Makeover: American Horror Story, Femininity and Special Effects." Critical Studies in Television. 8.3 (2013).  
• Weems, Lisa. "Refuting 'Refugee Chic': Transnational Girl(hood)s and the Guerilla Pedagogy of M.I.A. Feminist Formations. 26.1 (2014).