How would you define American Gothic?let's post some inspo
>>18669539this is literally just small town western wear
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>>18669569Is that Flannery O'Connor?>>18669554You could define american gothic that way, yes.
>>18669539Here
>>18669579great film
>>18669575Except you can’t. American “gothic” is middle America corn fields.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5v5DOEF45E
>>18669594damn this fit goes hard
>>18669622one of my favorite movies of all time and easily my favorite johnny depp film. so good
>>18669539this aesthetic and all the stuff in this thread is called "midwest gothic" by the way. that's the name it's known by
>>18669617Yes, monsters surely.
>>18669539>Midwest Gothic is an aesthetic characterized by the portrayal of common facets of the Midwestern American lifestyle in a macabre light. Like many other Regional Gothic aesthetics, it originated and rose to popularity in the mid 2010s on Tumblr. Common themes found in Midwest Gothic works include the indifferent and mysterious qualities of nature, references to local folklore, exaggerations of Midwestern traditions, and a sense of isolation and disconnection, as well as poor weather and depressing lives. The aesthetic is often linked to cottagecore and liminal spaces. now that you know the "rules" come up with some fits
isnt this just the south in general?kudzu tree, pick up trucks, jesus,
>>18669635>>18669646southern gothic existed first as a literary genre about the post civil war south
>>18669539Is this another one of those things like "cyberpunk" back in 2016 where we take a dead literary genre and try to turn it into a fashion style?
>>18669539So basically Louisiana.
>>18669615>finnish painter<american gothicokay?
>>18669923>>18669646>include the indifferent and mysterious qualities of nature, references to local folklore, exaggerations of Midwestern traditions, and a sense of isolation and disconnection, as well as poor weather and depressing lives.Switch "midwestern traditions" for "finnish folklore" and that's accurate for Finland too.
>>18669646The American Gothic aesthetic originally comes from architecture. In the 19th century, the European Gothic Revival style was adapted in rural United States, where local builders recreated gothic elements such as pointed windows and vertical forms using wood, producing what is known as Carpenter Gothic. These small churches and houses, often standing alone in agricultural landscapes, became a visual symbol of rural American life, famously captured in American Gothic by Grant Wood.Over time the idea moved beyond architecture into literature, film, and visual culture. The term began to describe stories and imagery where quiet rural settings carry a sense of religious austerity, mystery, or unease. One modern expression is the Midwest Gothic aesthetic, which blends imagery of wooden churches, barns, and wheat fields with Christian symbolism and regional folklore, including ghosts and cryptids, and today also influences photography, design, and fashion with a melancholic rural gothic style.
to whoever's posting here, good thread
>>18670034Cute.
Why does American gothic refer to the South and Appalachia and not Chicago or New York?
Gothic =/= horror btw in case anyone needs to hear that
>>18670138It's a big concept/movement, and it includes many things; maybe it's hard for your brain to grasp that
>>18670117This. A rare win for this form.
>>18670136all the greatest culture comes out of the south from black and white people. and the mixing of the cultures.>The themes largely reflected the cultural atmosphere of the South following the collapse of the Confederacy in the Civil War, which left a vacuum of cultural and religious values as well as economic devastation. The poverty and bitterness during the post-war Reconstruction era exacerbated the racism endemic to the region
>>18670194This is just a very basic and liberal lecture
by the way i think the urban northern equivalent of southern gothic would be noir and detective type stuff, allthough there can be overlap
>>18670197yeah, southern gothic started out as an insult, but it turned into a genre that features the darkness and madness of the post civil war south
y'all gay and can't even get pretty goth pussy
>>18670143It literally doesn’t include horror fuck tard
>>18670198Reminiscent of Hunt's "The Shadow of Death"
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>being Appalachian is gothI guess that explains a lot of things...
>>18671435You don't really know what Goth meansNo, it doesn't mean "wear black."
>>18669539Gott dayüm why does this make me long for a time and place I never even existed in (and am the wrong race for)?What the fuck have huwyte "people" done to their own societies? Yall ought to be deeply ashamed of yourselves. You had the best thing going, and flushed it down the toilet. For what?
>>18671478Goth has germanic, vampiric, romantic and/or brutalist themes. It's about awe of the disturbing. Mainstream values awe of the safe and mundane, categorizing the other into disturbed labels and out-casting them socially once-upon-a-time. Dusty impoverished Appalachian churches can sometimes be the opposite of this, they're full of baptist zealots, even if they look abandoned, they're not.
cool thread !
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>>18669539thank you for making this awesome thread I liked it a lot
>>18670086I’m gonna suck the feet of the chick top left
more made up algorithmslop.
If you've never seen the movie Northfork, it has this aesthetic in spades.
>>18669572First Reformed is not American Gothic.
>>18671376Retard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t55xuzAiZa0
Good thread for once but a lot of this is just Americana, the lines being blurred is easy to do though
>>18677733based
