Since the publication of Twilight in 2005, Stephenie Meyer's four-book saga about the tortured relationship between human heroine Bella Swan and her vampire love Edward Cullen has become a world-wide sensation--inciting screams of delight, sighs of derision, and fervent pronouncements. Those looking deeper into its pages and on screen can find intriguing subtexts about everything from gender, race, sexuality, and religion. The 15 essays in this book examine the texts, the films, and the fandom, exploring the series' cultural reach and offering one of the first thorough analyses of the saga.
Since the publication of Twilight in 2005, Stephenie Meyer's four-book saga about the tortured relationship between human heroine Bella Swan and her vampire love Edward Cullen has become a world-wide sensation--inciting screams of delight, sighs of derision, and fervent pronouncements. Those looking deeper into its pages and on screen can find intriguing subtexts about everything from gender, race, sexuality, and religion. The 15 essays in this book examine the texts, the films, and the fandom, exploring the series' cultural reach and offering one of the first thorough analyses of the saga.
Maggie Parke has a PhD in fan management and event film adaptation from Bangor University in Wales, United Kingdom. She has published in the Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds and is a lecturer and studio director for Signum Studios, a part of Signum University. She also works in international education, and is a consultant for fan management and project development. Natalie Wilson is a professor of women's, gender, and sexuality studies at Cal State San Marcos in San Diego, California. She writes and teaches in the areas of popular culture, film, television, horror, women's literature, and feminism.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. 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 Part II. Once Upon a Twilight: Fairy Tales, 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 A Post- Feminist Romance: Love, Gender and Intertextuality in Stephenie Meyer's Saga HILA SHACHAR Part III. 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 Werewolf /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 About the Contributors Index
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. 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 Part II. Once Upon a Twilight: Fairy Tales, 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 A Post- Feminist Romance: Love, Gender and Intertextuality in Stephenie Meyer's Saga HILA SHACHAR Part III. 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 Werewolf /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 About the Contributors Index
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