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“In Del Rey’s videos, clear evidence exists in her facial expressions where she consistently portrays Gothic elements of uncertainty, sorrow, grief and a pervading sense that she does not belong in this world (Botting, Gothic). Whilst depicted as a brooding and mourning widow –simultaneously playing the mistress luxuriating on a lion skin rug– in National Anthem Del Rey sings, “money is the anthem of success” without a smile or sense of any attachment to the lyrics.”
-Usmar, Patrick. “Born To Die: Lana Del Rey, Beauty Queen or Gothic Princess?”
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In the last decade, a strong Gothic presence is seen in music, movies, television shows, and literature produced.
Zombieland Directed by Ruben Fleischer (2009)
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Twilight, The Vampire Diaries, True Blood, Carry On, etc:
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Police agreeing to protect against discrimination shows and forces a shift in the public’s view of the Goth subculture.
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Pre-order Issue 44
http://www.gothicbeauty.com/shop/back-issues/issue-44.html
Photo: Annie Bertram. Model: La Esmeralda
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“That unappetizing cartoon is just one of many Gothic images and themes that have seeped darkly into the culture. Books, movies, stage productions, photographs and, perhaps most emphatically, fashion are all evoking those familiar Gothic obsessions: death, decay, destructive passions and the specter of nature run amok. They've surfaced at times before, of course. But rarely since the mid-19th century, when it first became a crowd pleaser, has the Gothic aesthetic gained such a throttlehold on the collective imagination.”
-Ruth La Ferla
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After the Columbine High School shooting, in 1999, Goth students around America experienced an increase in harassment because they became associated with the Columbine shooters and were seen as a threat.
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When did the Gothic subculture begin?
Along with the creation of British Goth rock came the Gothic subculture in the early 1980′s.
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Pop Goth is a mainstream consumerist spin-off of Gothic, which is both a consumerist and commodity-oriented culture as well as a subculture that resists gender and sexual norms.
Justin D. Edwards and Agnieszka S. Monnet "The Gothic in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture: Pop Goth."
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