Gothic
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Gothic or Goth may refer to:
Gothic people
The Goths – a group of East Germanic tribes.Language
- Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language, spoken by the Goths
- Crimean Gothic, Gothic language spoken by the Crimean Goths
- Gothic alphabet, one of the alphabets used to write the Gothic language
Architecture
- Gothic architecture
- Gothic Revival architecture originating in the 18th century, in its early, fanciful phase sometimes spelled "Gothick"
- Brick Gothic-a reduced style of Gothic architecture in Northern Europe, especially in the regions around the Baltic Sea without natural rock resources.
- Polish Gothic
- Portuguese Late Gothic (Manueline)
Art
- Gothic art, a Medieval art movement
- International Gothic, a subset of Gothic art developed in Burgundy, Bohemia and northern Italy in the late 1300s and early 1400s
Music
- Gothic rock is a kind of sinister, atmospheric, bizarre form of rock music, sometimes with rather gloomy overtones.
- Gothic metal, which combines the dark melancholy of Gothic rock with the aggression of heavy metal.
Fiction
- Gothic fiction, a British literary genre from the late 18th and early 19th century, with a Victorian revival a hundred years later.
- Goth (novel), a Japanese novel, which was adapted into a manga
- Goth (Silverwing Character), a fictional bat from the Silverwing series of novels
Film
- Gothic horror, a subgenre of film which combines elements of horror and romance in gothic settings
- Gothic (film), Ken Russell film.
Nature
- Gothic (moth), a species of noctuid moth named after its patterns reminiscent of Gothic architecture
- Gothics, one of the Adirondack High Peaks in New York.
Romanticism
- Gothic Lolita - a subset of Lolita fashion, popular in Japan
From the 18th century, the word came to mean Germanic in general, with grim overtones:
- Gothic fiction, a British literary genre from the late 18th and early 19th century, with a Victorian revival a hundred years later.
From its use in Romanticism, the word in the 20th century came to refer to anything dark or gloomy:
- Gothic Romanticism
- Southern Gothic The dark and horrific genre of literature based in the Southern USA
- Southern Ontario Gothic
- Gothic double - literary concept
Post-punk subculture
Sport
- Gothic F.C., a football club based in Norwich, England
Typefaces
- Another name for sans-serif typefaces
- East Asian gothic typeface, a common printing style in East Asian printing
- Blackletter (Gothic script), a script developed in the Middle Ages
Video Game
- Gothic (computer game) developed by Piranha Bytes followed by two sequels Gothic II and Gothic 3.
See also
- Gothenburg (disambiguation)
- Gothicismus
- Sturm und Drang
- Gothika
- American Gothic (disambiguation)
- Gothicmed
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