Bitten by Twilight : youth culture, media and the vampire franchise/
edited by Melissa A. Click, Jennifer Stevens Aubrey and Elizabeth Behm-Morawitz
- New York : Peter Lang, c2010.
- x, 302 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- (Mediated youth), v. 14. .
I. Biting into the Twilight narrative. 1. Mormon morality and immortality in Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series / Margaret M. Toscano -- 2. Twilight follows tradition: analyzing "biting" critiques of vampire narratives for their portrayals of gender and sexuality / Melissa Ames --3. Civilized vampires versus savage werewolves: race and ethnicity in the Twilight series / Natalie Wilson -- 4. Cullen family values: gender and sexual politics in the Twilight series / Carrie Anne Platt -- 5. Twilight and transformations of flesh: reading the body in contemporary youth culture / Danielle Dick McGeough -- 6. A very queer refusal: the chilling effect of the Cullens' heteronormative embrace / Kathryn Kane -- 7. Taking a bite out of love: the myth of romantic love in the Twilight series / Tricia Clasen -- II. Biting into the Twilight fandom. 8. Relating to Twilight: fans' responses to love and romance in the vampire franchise / Elizabeth Behm-Morawitz, Melissa A. Click, & Jennifer Stevens Aubrey -- 9. My mother, myself: mother-daughter bonding via the Twilight saga / Cathy Leogrande -- 10. Back to the woods: narrative revisions in New Moon fan fiction at Twilighted.net / Juli Parrish -- 11. Transnational Twilighters: A Twilight fan community in Norway / Inger-Lise Kalviknes Bore & Rebecca Williams -- 12. Biting back: Twilight anti-fandom and the rhetoric of superiority / Jessica Sheffield & Elyse Merlo -- III. Biting into the Twilight franchise. 13. Twilight and production of the 21st century teen idol / Jennifer Stevens Aubrey, Scott Walus, & Melissa A. Click -- 14. Consumed by Twilight: the commodification of young adult literature / Marianne Martens -- 15. Touring the Twilight Zone: Cultural tourism and commodification on the Olympic Peninsula / Cyntha Willis-Chun -- Afterword / Elana Levine.
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Young adult fiction, American--History and criticism Vampires in literature Youth in literature Gender identity in literature Sex in literature Love in literature