Gothic

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Gothic or Gothics may refer to:

People and languages

• Goths or Gothic people, the ethnonym of a group of East Germanic tribes
  • Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths
  • Crimean Gothic, the Gothic language spoken by the Crimean Goths, also extinct
  • Gothic alphabet, one of the alphabets used to write the Gothic language
  • Gothic (Unicode block), a collection of Unicode characters of the Gothic alphabet

Art and architecture

• Gothic art, a Medieval art movement
• Gothic architecture
• Gothic Revival architecture (Neo-Gothic)
  • Carpenter Gothic
  • Collegiate Gothic
  • High Victorian Gothic
• Raygun Gothic a retrofuturist visual style coined by William Gibson in 1981

Romanticism

• Gothic fiction or Gothic Romanticism, a literary genre

Entertainment

• Gothic (film), a 1986 film by Ken Russell
• Gothic (series), a video game series originally developed by Piranha Bytes
  • Gothic (video game), a 2001 video game developed by Piranha Bytes
  • Gothic II, a 2002 video game developed by Piranha Bytes
    • Gothic II: Night of the Raven, a 2003 expansion pack for Gothic II, developed by Piranha Bytes
  • Gothic 3, a 2006 video game developed by Piranha Bytes
  • Gothic (Remake), an upcoming remake of 2001 video game by Alkimia Interactive
• Gothika, a 2003 American supernatural psychological horror thriller film

Modern culture and lifestyle

• Goth subculture, a music-cultural scene

Music

• Gothic rock, a genre of rock music
• Gothic metal, a genre of heavy metal music
• Symphony No. 1 "The Gothic" (Brian), a symphony by Havergal Brian
• Gothic (Paradise Lost album), 1991
• Gothic (Nox Arcana album), 2015

Typography

• The term "Gothic" is sometimes misused of Blackletter typefaces, a script historically used throughout Central and Western Europe, resembling mediaeval scribal writing.
• Sans-serif or Gothic typefaces, an unadorned font style, that lacks "serifs" at the ends of strokes
  • East Asian Gothic typeface, the "sans-serif" equivalent for East Asian writing systems
• Block letters or Gothic writing, a style of writing alphabetic scripts and abjads in which characters are individual glyphs without joining

Transport

• SS Gothic (1893), a White Star Line ship
• SS Gothic (1947), a Corinthic-class passenger and cargo liner

Other

• Gothic (moth), a species of nocturnal moth
• Gothic Line, a World War II defensive line
• Gothics, one of the Adirondack High Peaks in New York
• Gothic F.C., a football club in Norwich, England
• New Gothic, a contemporary art movement
• Batman: Gothic, a 1990 comic book story arc
• Gothic plate armour, a style of armour used in the 15th century
• "Gothic", a Series G episode of the television series QI (2010)

See also

• Geats
• Goth (disambiguation)
• Gothic War (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with Gothic 
• All pages with titles containing Gothic

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This page was last edited on 24 January 2024, at 18:13