Theorizing Twilight critical essays on what's at stake in a post-vampire world /
"Since the publication of Twilight in 2005, Stephenie Meyer's four-book saga has become a world-wide sensation, inciting screams of delight from loyal fans, sighs of derision from detractors, and fervent pronouncements about what "Team" one is on. These accessible essays examine...
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Jefferson, N.C. :
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Twilight as pop cultural artifact: pilgrimages, fan culture, and film adaptations. The vampire capital of the world: commerce and enchantment in Forks, Washington / Tanya Erzen
- Fanpires: utilizing fan culture in event film adaptations / Maggie Parke
- The hero and the id: a psychoanalytic inquiry into the popularity of Twilight / Heather Anastasiu
- Someday my vampire will come? society's (and the media's) lovesick infatuation with prince-like vampires / Colette Murphy
- Team Bella: fans navigating desire, security, and feminism / Ananya Mukherjea
- Once upon a Twilight: fairy fales, Byronic (anti) heroes, post-feminist romance, and growing up in a Twilight world. "How old are you?" representations of age in the saga / Ashley Benning
- Read only as directed: psychology, intertextuality, and hyperreality in the series / Angela Tenga
- Torn between two lovers: Twilight tames Wuthering Heights / Sarah Wakefield
- Rewriting the Byronic hero: how the Twilight saga turned "mad, bad, and dangerous to know" into a teen fiction phenomenon / Jessica Groper
- Post-feminist romance: love, gender and intertextuality in Stephenie Meyer's saga / Hila Shachar
- Twilight through an intersectional lens: patriarchy, white privilege, heteronormativity, rape, culture, religion. Maybe Edward is the most dangerous thing out there: the role of patriarchy / Melissa Miller
- Denial and salvation: the Twilight series and heteronormative patriarchy / Ashley Donnelly
- It's a wolf thing: the Quileute Wwrewolf/shape-shifter hybrid as noble savage / Natalie Wilson
- Violence, agency, and the women of Twilight / Anne Torkelson
- Un-biting the apple and killing the womb: genesis, gender, and gynocide / Lindsey Issow Averill.