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The Twilight Mystique

Author : Amy M. Clarke,Marijane Osborn,Donald E. Palumbo
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786462049

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The Twilight Mystique by Amy M. Clarke,Marijane Osborn,Donald E. Palumbo Pdf

The 13 essays in this volume explore Stephenie Meyer’s wildly popular Twilight series in the contexts of literature, religion, fairy tales, film, and the gothic. Several examine Meyer’s emphasis on abstinence, considering how, why, and if the author’s Mormon faith has influenced the series’ worldview. Others look at fan involvement in the Twilight world, focusing on how the series’ avid following has led to an economic transformation in Forks, Washington, the real town where the fictional series is set. Other topics include Meyer’s use of Quileute shape-shifting legends, Twilight’s literary heritage and its frequent references to classic works of literature, and the series’ controversial depictions of femininity.

The Twilight Saga

Author : Claudia Bucciferro
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-12
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780810892866

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The Twilight Saga by Claudia Bucciferro Pdf

When Stephenie Meyer’s first novel, Twilight, was published in 2005, it received an astounding reception, selling millions of copies. The three sequels that followed—New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn—became international bestsellers as well. The worldwide success of the movie adaptations further cemented the series as a cultural force. In The Twilight Saga: Exploring the Global Phenomenon, Claudia Bucciferro has assembled a collection of essays that examine the series from a variety of perspectives. The essays in this volume consider both the books and the movies, emphasizing the relationship between the texts, the audience, the entertainment industry, and other aspects of the multimillion-dollar franchise. Making sense of how the popular franchise fits within larger contexts, this collection addresses Twilight from an interdisciplinary framework, including insights from history, philosophy, literature, sociology, fan studies, intercultural communication, film studies, and more.

Screening Twilight

Author : Wickham Clayton,Sarah Harman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780857723604

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Screening Twilight by Wickham Clayton,Sarah Harman Pdf

The Twilight saga, a series of five films adapted from Stephanie Meyer's four vampire novels, has been a sensation, both at the box office and through the attention it has won from its predominantly teenaged fans. This series has also been the subject of criticism and sometimes derision - often from critics and on occasion even from fans. However, it also offers rich opportunities for analytic and critical attention, which the contributors to Screening Twilight demonstrate with energy and style. Through examining Twilight, the book unpacks how this popular group of films work as cinematic texts, what they have to say about cinema and culture today, and how fans may seek to re-read or subvert these messages. The chapters addressTwilight in the context of the vampire and myth, in terms of genre and reception, identity, gender and sexuality, and through re-viewing the series fandom. Screening Twilight is also a revelation of how a popular cinematic phenomenon like Twilight rewards close attention from contemporary critical scholars of cinema and culture.

The Twilight of the Gothic?

Author : Joseph Crawford
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783161768

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The Twilight of the Gothic? by Joseph Crawford Pdf

This book explores the history of the paranormal romance genre; from its origins in the revisionist horror fiction of the 1970s, via its emergence as a minor sub-genre of romantic fiction in the early 1990s, to its contemporary expansion in recent years into an often-controversial genre of mainstream fiction. Tracing the genre from its roots in older Gothic fiction written by and for women, it explores the interconnected histories of Gothic and romantic fiction, from Ann Radcliffe and Jane Austen in the eighteenth century to Buffy, Twilight, True Blood and The Vampire Diaries in the present day. In doing so, it investigates the extent to which the post-Twilight paranormal romance really does represent a break from older traditions of Gothic fiction – and just what it is about the genre that has made it so extraordinarily divisive, captivating millions of readers whilst simultaneously infuriating and repelling so many others.

Virgin Envy

Author : Jonathan A. Allan,Cristina Santos,Adriana Spahr
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786990372

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Virgin Envy by Jonathan A. Allan,Cristina Santos,Adriana Spahr Pdf

Virginity is of concern here, that is its utter messiness. At once valuable and detrimental, normative and deviant, undesirable and enviable. Virginity and its loss hold tremendous cultural significance. For many, female virginity is still a universally accepted condition, something that is somehow bound to the hymen, whereas male virginity is almost as elusive as the G-spot: we know it's there, it’s just we have a harder time finding it. Of course boys are virgins, queers are virgins, some people reclaim their virginities, and others reject virginity from the get go. So what if we agree to forget the hymen all together? Might we start to see the instability of terms like untouched, pure, or innocent? Might we question the act of sex, the very notion of relational sexuality? After all, for many people it is the sexual acts they don’t do, or don’t want to do, that carry the most abundant emotional clout. Virgin Envy is a collection of essays that look past the vestal virgins and beyond Joan of Arc. From medieval to present-day literature, the output of HBO, Bollywood, and the films of Abdellah Taïa or Derek Jarman to the virginity testing of politically active women in Tahrir Square, the writers here explore the concept of virginity in today’s world to show that ultimately virginity is a site around which our most basic beliefs about sexuality are confronted, and from which we can come to understand some of our most basic anxieties, paranoias, fears, and desires.

Fan Girls and the Media

Author : Adrienne Trier-Bieniek
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442246560

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Fan Girls and the Media by Adrienne Trier-Bieniek Pdf

This collection of essays examines the ways that entertainment and media are created and consumed in conjunction with gender stereotypes, by examining the diverse ways that women are confronting these stereotypes.

The Vampire in Folklore, History, Literature, Film and Television

Author : Anonim
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786499366

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The Vampire in Folklore, History, Literature, Film and Television by Anonim Pdf

This comprehensive bibliography covers writings about vampires and related creatures from the 19th century to the present. More than 6,000 entries document the vampire's penetration of Western culture, from scholarly discourse, to popular culture, politics and cook books. Sections by topic list works covering various aspects, including general sources, folklore and history, vampires in literature, music and art, metaphorical vampires and the contemporary vampire community. Vampires from film and television--from Bela Lugosi's Dracula to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, True Blood and the Twilight Saga--are well represented.

Twenty-First-Century Popular Fiction

Author : Bernice M. Murphy
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474414869

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Twenty-First-Century Popular Fiction by Bernice M. Murphy Pdf

This groundbreaking collection provides students with a timely and accessible overview of current trends within contemporary popular fiction.

The Future of the Nineteenth-Century Dream-Child

Author : Amy Billone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317381921

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The Future of the Nineteenth-Century Dream-Child by Amy Billone Pdf

This book investigates the reappearance of the 19th-century dream-child from the Golden Age of Children's Literature, both in the Harry Potter series and in other works that have reached unprecedented levels of popular success today. Discussing Harry Potter as a reincarnation of Lewis Carroll's Alice and J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, Billone goes on to examine the recent resurrection of Alice in Tim Burton's Alice, and of Peter Pan in Michael Jackson and in James Bond. Visiting trends that have emerged since the Harry Potter series ended, the book studies revisions of the dream-child in texts and films that have inspired mass fandom in the twenty-first century: Stephenie Meyer's Twilight, E.L. James's 50 Shades of Grey and Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games. The volume argues that the 21st-century desire to achieve dream-states in relationship to eternal youth results from the way that dreams provide a means of realizing the fantastic yet alarming possibility of escaping from time. This current identification with the dream-child stems from the threat of political unrest and economic and environmental collapse as well as from the simultaneous technophilia and technophobia of a culture immersed in the breathless revolution of the digital age. This book not only explores how the dream-child from the past has returned to reflect misgivings about imagined dystopian futures but also reveals how the rebirth of the dream-child opens up possibilities for new narratives where happy endings remain viable against all odds. It will appeal to scholars in a wide variety of fields including Childhood Studies, Children's/YA Literature, Cinema Studies, Cultural Studies, Cyberculture, Gender Studies, Queer Studies, Gothic Studies, New Media, and Popular Culture.

Seduced by Twilight

Author : Natalie Wilson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786485611

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Seduced by Twilight by Natalie Wilson Pdf

Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight saga has maintained a tight grip on the contemporary cultural imagination. This timely and critical work examines how the Twilight series offers addictively appealing messages about love, romance, sex, beauty and body image, and how these charged themes interact with cultural issues regarding race, class, gender and sexuality. Through a careful analysis of the texts, the fandom and the current socio-historical climate, this work argues that the success of the Twilight series stems chiefly from Meyer’s negotiation of cultural mores.

Images of the Anthropocene in Speculative Fiction

Author : Tereza Dědinová,Weronika Łaszkiewicz,Sylwia Borowska-Szerszun
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781793636645

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Images of the Anthropocene in Speculative Fiction by Tereza Dědinová,Weronika Łaszkiewicz,Sylwia Borowska-Szerszun Pdf

In order to demonstrate that speculative fiction provides a valuable contribution to the discussion about the challenges of the Anthropocene, Images of the Anthropocene in Speculative Fiction investigates a range of novels whose subject matter pertains to various aspects of the Anthropocene. These include the destruction and protection of the natural environment, the relationship between human and non-human inhabitants of the planet, the role of myth in the shaping of and combat against the Anthropocene, the political dimensions of the Anthropocene, the ensuing threat of the Apocalypse, and the role of post-apocalyptic narratives. To explore these topics our authors examine the works of Patricia Briggs, M.R. Carey, Dmitry Glukhovsky, Ursula K. Le Guin, N.K. Jemisin, Stephenie Meyer, China Miéville, James Patterson, Maggie Stiefvater, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Scott Westfield. Their essays demonstrate that speculative fiction, given its ability to pursue scenarios of alternative history and present familiar things in an unfamiliar way, can alter the readers’ perception of their duties and responsibilities towards their communities and the world, so that the threat of human-wrought destruction might ultimately be averted.

Postfeminism and Contemporary Vampire Romance

Author : Lea Gerhards
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350215658

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Postfeminism and Contemporary Vampire Romance by Lea Gerhards Pdf

In this book, Lea Gerhards traces connections between three recent vampire romance series; the Twilight film series (2008-2012), The Vampire Diaries (2009-2017) and True Blood (2008-2014), exploring their tremendous discursive and ideological power in order to understand the cultural politics of these extremely popular texts. She uses contemporary vampire romance to examine postfeminist ideologies and discuss gender, sexuality, subjectivity, agency and the body. Discussing a range of conflicting meanings contained in the narratives, Gerhards critically looks genre's engagement with everyday sexism and violence against women, power relations in heterosexual relationships, sexual autonomy and pleasure, (self-) empowerment, and (self-) surveillance. She asks: Why are these genre texts so popular right now, what specific desires, issues and fears are addressed and negotiated by them, and what kinds of pleasures do they offer?

Stephenie Meyer

Author : Lauri S. Scherer
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-15
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781420510126

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Stephenie Meyer by Lauri S. Scherer Pdf

Since writing her debut novel after receiving the novel's plot in a dream, Stephenie Meyer has achieved a level of stardom unknown to most authors of young adult fiction. This book explores the author's childhood, before taking readers through the whirlwind tale of Twilight's publication and the development of the blockbuster movie franchise. Chapters also discuss the controversy surrounding Twilight's religious undertones and Meyer's newest work.

Fan Identities and Practices in Context

Author : Mark Duffett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317382195

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Fan Identities and Practices in Context by Mark Duffett Pdf

Popular music is not simply a series of musicians, moments, genres or recordings. Audiences matter; and the most ardent audience members are the fans. To be a fan is to feel a connection with music. The study of fandom has begun to emerge as a vital strand of academic research, one that offers a fresh perspective on the nature of music culture. Dedicated to Music investigates fan identities and practices in different contexts and in relation to different bands and artists. Through a series of empirical case studies the book reflects a diverse array of objects and perspectives associated with this vibrant new field of study. Contributors examine how fans negotiate their identities and actively pursue their particular interests, touching on a range of issues including cultural capital, generational memory, gender, fan fiction and the use of new media. This book was originally published as two special issues of Popular Music and Society.

Heightened Genre and Women's Filmmaking in Hollywood

Author : Mary Harrod
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030709945

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Heightened Genre and Women's Filmmaking in Hollywood by Mary Harrod Pdf

Despite the widely publicised prejudice faced by women in Hollywood, since around 1990 a significant minority of female directors have been making commercially and culturally impactful films there across the full range of genres. This book explores movies by filmmakers Amy Heckerling, Nora Ephron, Nancy Meyers, Catherine Hardwicke, Sofia Coppola, Kimberly Peirce, Kathryn Bigelow and Greta Gerwig, including many which are still critically neglected or derided, seeing them as offering a new understanding of genre filmmaking. That is, like many other contemporary films but in a striking proportion within the smaller set of mainstream movies by women, this body of work revels in a heightened genre status that allows its authors to simultaneously address ‘intellectual’ cinephilic pleasures and bodily-emotive ones. Arguing through close analysis that these films demonstrate the inseparability of such strategies of engagement in contemporary genre cinema, Heightened Genre reclaims women’s mainstream filmmaking for feminism through a recalibration of genre theory itself.