Screening Twilight : critical approaches to a cinematic phenomenon / edited by Wickham Clayton and Sarah Harman.
The Twilight saga, a series of five films adapted from Stephanie Meyer's four novels, has been a sensation, both at the box office and through the attention it has won from its predominantly teenaged fans. As popular cinema, the series has had its share of criticism, even from fans. However, it...
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London ; New York :
I. B. Tauris,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1 Mute Monsters and Vocal [Fan/] Critics: Genre and Reception
- 1. Guilty Pleasures: Twilight, Snark and Critical Fandom / Francesca Haig
- 2. 'Cue the Shrieking Virgins'?: The Critical Reception of The Twilight Saga / Mark Jancovich
- 3. 'Flicks for Chicks (and Chicks with Dicks) Who Can't Take Serious Horror': The Generic Misrecognition of The Twilight Saga / Nia Edwards-Behi
- 4. The Pageant of Her Bleeding Twi-hard Heart: Twilight, Femininity, Sexuality, and Female Consumption / Sarah Harman
- pt. 2 Werewolves, Lions and Lambs: Creating and Subverting the Generic Myth
- 5. Why Twilight Sucks and Edward Doesn't: Contemporary Vampires and the Sentimental Tradition / Judith Kohlenberger
- 6. The Lore of the Wild / Caroline Ruddell
- 7. 'Where Have All the Monsters Gone? Long Time Passing': The Aesthetics of Absence and Generic Subversion in New Moon / Wickham Clayton
- pt. 3 Romancing the Tomb: Sexual Dysfunction and Sexuality.
- Contents note continued: 8. 'My Distaste for Forks': Twilight, Oral Gratification and Self-Denial / Ruth O'Donnell
- 9. Of Masochistic Lions and Stupid Lambs: The Ambiguous Nature of Sexuality and Sexual Awakening in Twilight / Marion Rana
- 10. 'Venus in Fangs': Negotiating Masochism in Twilight / Mark Richard Adams
- pt. 4 The Politics of Pallor: Post-colonialism and Racial Whiteness, Queered?
- 11. The Cullens: Family, Mimicry and the Post-Colonial Vampire / Simon Bacon
- 12. Racial Whiteness and Twilight / Ewan Kirkland
- 13. Scent, Siblings and the Filial: Queering Twilight / R. Justin Hunt
- pt. 5 Slash and Burn: Deviating Fandom and Rewriting the Text
- 14. Defanging the Vampire: Projected Interactivity and All Human Twilight Fan-fic / Brigid Cherry
- 15. Normal Female Interest in Vampires and Werewolves Bonking: Slash and the Reconstruction of Meaning / Bethan Jones.