Friday, February 20, 2009

Bbc 4 Documentary Gives Goths A Hard Time

Bbc 4 Documentary Gives Goths A Hard Time
Late very considerably enjoying the fundamental programme in the BBC art series The Gloomy Ages - An Age of Brilliance concluding week, I had been looking path to the taking into consideration programme in the series on Tuesday - about the art of the Huns, Vandals and Goths.

OK, amp Waldemar Januszczak did teach me a lot about Huns, Vandals and Goths that I didn't know into the future. Nonetheless their respect as savage barbarians who gave the civilised Romans a hardheaded time, they were in fact in any case civilised themselves and likewise bent wonderful artwork.

Although, I was less than carved by Waldemar Januszczak's state of modern-day goths as looking in the manner of Fiend flock. Draw from on, it isn't fair to on one hand motionless a myth about ancient Goths and along with perpetuate in mint condition one. In my experience Goths are far specially normal to be pagans than Satanists.

Open-minded goths don't regard as they are anything in the manner of ancient Goths either. They defeat proposal from 18th and 19th century gothic literature in the manner of The Stronghold of Otrantoor Dracula,copious a divergent thing. Open-minded goths are clear a group of populace who in the manner of to face lithe and black, apply your mind to music from bands such as Inkubus Sukkubus and mind their own collaboration.

So enchant Mr Januszczak, do get your facts fitting.

Former than that, the programme was pleasing to the eye good and I option apparently direct taking into consideration age in the series, which is about the art of Islam.

Acquaintances


The Stronghold of Otranto: A Gothic Lie down (Oxford World's Classics)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic fiction

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic rock

The Gloomy Goddess


Dracula (Wordsworth Classics)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goths

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01p65b9

http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2012/11/tv-dark-ages-age-of-light.html