Bitten by Twilight : youth culture, media, & the vampire franchise / edited by Melissa A. Click, Jennifer Stevens Aubrey, & Elizabeth Behm-Morawitz.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Mediated youth ; v. 14.Publication details: New York : Peter Lang, Description: x, 302 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781433108945
  • 1433108941
  • 9781433108938
  • 1433108933
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813/.6 22
LOC classification:
  • PS3613.E979 Z6 2010
Contents:
I. Biting into the Twilight narrative. Mormon morality and immortality in Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series / Margaret M. Toscano -- Twilight follows tradition : analyzing "biting" critiques of vampire narratives for their portrayals of gender and sexuality / Melissa Ames -- Civilized vampires versus savage werewolves : race and ethnicity in the Twilight series / Natalie Wilson -- Cullen family values : gender and sexual politics in the Twilight series / Carrie Anne Platt -- Twilight and transformations of flesh : reading the body in contemporary youth culture / Danielle Dick McGeough -- A very queer refusal : the chilling effect of the Cullens' heteronormative embrace / Kathryn Kane -- Taking a bite out of love : the myth of romantic love in the Twilight series / Tricia Clasen.
II. Biting into the Twilight fandom. Relating to Twilight : fans' responses to love and romance in the vampire franchise / Elizabeth Behm-Morawitz, Melissa A. Click, & Jennifer Stevens Aubrey -- My mother, myself : mother-daughter bonding via the Twilight saga / Cathy Leogrande -- Back to the woods : narrative revisions in New Moon fan fiction at Twilighted.net / Juli Parrish -- Transnational Twilighters : A Twilight fan community in Norway / Inger-Lise Kalviknes Bore & Rebecca Williams -- Biting back : Twilight anti-fandom and the rhetoric of superiority / Jessica Sheffield & Elyse Merlo -- III. Biting into the Twilight franchise. Twilight and production of the 21st century teen idol / Jennifer Stevens Aubrey, Scott Walus, & Melissa A. Click -- Consumed by Twilight : the commodification of young adult literature / Marianne Martens -- Touring the Twilight Zone : Cultural tourism and commodification on the Olympic Peninsula / Cyntha Willis-Chun -- Afterword / Elana Levine.
Summary: Focusing on the wildly successful Twilight series, this collection of scholarly essays examines the phenomenon from diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives. Particular attention is paid to cultural, social, and economic aspects of the series and to the recurrent messages about youth, gender roles, romance, and sexuality. Essays discuss race and religion, and provide audience analyses of young adult, adult, anti, and international fans. Other chapters are political-economic examinations into celebrity, tourism, and publishing. With new research by established and rising scholars, this volume is a significant contribution to the growing field of youth studies and complements existing feminist cultural analyses of media texts. -- Back cover.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

I. Biting into the Twilight narrative. Mormon morality and immortality in Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series / Margaret M. Toscano -- Twilight follows tradition : analyzing "biting" critiques of vampire narratives for their portrayals of gender and sexuality / Melissa Ames -- Civilized vampires versus savage werewolves : race and ethnicity in the Twilight series / Natalie Wilson -- Cullen family values : gender and sexual politics in the Twilight series / Carrie Anne Platt -- Twilight and transformations of flesh : reading the body in contemporary youth culture / Danielle Dick McGeough -- A very queer refusal : the chilling effect of the Cullens' heteronormative embrace / Kathryn Kane -- Taking a bite out of love : the myth of romantic love in the Twilight series / Tricia Clasen.

II. Biting into the Twilight fandom. Relating to Twilight : fans' responses to love and romance in the vampire franchise / Elizabeth Behm-Morawitz, Melissa A. Click, & Jennifer Stevens Aubrey -- My mother, myself : mother-daughter bonding via the Twilight saga / Cathy Leogrande -- Back to the woods : narrative revisions in New Moon fan fiction at Twilighted.net / Juli Parrish -- Transnational Twilighters : A Twilight fan community in Norway / Inger-Lise Kalviknes Bore & Rebecca Williams -- Biting back : Twilight anti-fandom and the rhetoric of superiority / Jessica Sheffield & Elyse Merlo -- III. Biting into the Twilight franchise. Twilight and production of the 21st century teen idol / Jennifer Stevens Aubrey, Scott Walus, & Melissa A. Click -- Consumed by Twilight : the commodification of young adult literature / Marianne Martens -- Touring the Twilight Zone : Cultural tourism and commodification on the Olympic Peninsula / Cyntha Willis-Chun -- Afterword / Elana Levine.

Focusing on the wildly successful Twilight series, this collection of scholarly essays examines the phenomenon from diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives. Particular attention is paid to cultural, social, and economic aspects of the series and to the recurrent messages about youth, gender roles, romance, and sexuality. Essays discuss race and religion, and provide audience analyses of young adult, adult, anti, and international fans. Other chapters are political-economic examinations into celebrity, tourism, and publishing. With new research by established and rising scholars, this volume is a significant contribution to the growing field of youth studies and complements existing feminist cultural analyses of media texts. -- Back cover.

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