All about the Gothic Movement
The gothic wedding is already a trend within the wedding industry and is set to become one of the biggest wedding trends of 2010.
The gothic movement itself is generally acknowledged to be a contemporary cultural trend found in many countries particularly in Europe. It started here in the UK during the early 1980s as an off-shoot of the post-punk era of the late 1970s, and the term ‘goth’ has been part of our cultural lexicon ever since this time.
The goth movement has infiltrated music, fashion and literature – with the most famous gothic villain being the vampire, a folklore legend of Eastern Europe, famously depicted in Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula and subsequent horror movies. The most influential cinematic and literary images tend to be graveyards, ruined castles, nightmares, ghosts, and vampires, however the movement also is strongly associated with intensely romantic dark meetings of the soul, as depicted in the poetry of Keats, Byron, Poe and Baudelaire.
In the 1980s and 1990s a main literary influence was the collection of vampire books written by Anne Rice, in which the characters struggled with their sexuality, and with the themes of eternity and loneliness. These became a forerunner to the hugely successful Twilight books written by Stephanie Meyer, whose subsequent films completed the mainstreaming of what had previously been seen as a sub-culture.
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