Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture Number 10 Literature Goes Pop / Literar(t)y Article 12 Matters 11-24-2020 Stranger Than Fiction: Gothic Intertextuality in Shakespears Sister’s Music Videos Tomasz Fisiak University of Lodz Follow this and additional works at: https://digijournals.uni.lodz.pl/textmatters Part of the Visual Studies Commons, and the Women's Studies Commons Recommended Citation Fisiak, Tomasz. "Stranger Than Fiction: Gothic Intertextuality in Shakespears Sister’s Music Videos." Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture, no.10, 2020, pp. 194-208, doi:10.18778/ 2083-2931.10.12 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Arts & Humanities Journals at University of Lodz Research Online. It has been accepted for inclusion in Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture by an authorized editor of University of Lodz Research Online. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Text Matters, Number 10, 2020 http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/2083-2931.10.12 Tomasz Fisiak University of Lodz Stranger Than Fiction: Gothic Intertextuality in Shakespears Sister’s Music Videos1 A BSTR A CT The following article is going to focus on a selection of music videos by Shakespears Sister, a British indie pop band consisting of Siobhan Fahey and Marcella Detroit, which rose to prominence in the late 1980s. This article scrutinizes five of the band’s music videos: “Goodbye Cruel World” (1991), “I Don’t Care” (1992), “Stay” (1992), “All the Queen’s Horses” (2019) and “When She Finds You” (2019; the last two filmed 26 years after the duo’s turbulent split), all of them displaying a strong affinity with Gothicism.