Genre, Reception, and Adaptation in the 'Twilight' Series
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audience reception studies
Bella's Desire
Bella's Narration
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Bella’s Desire
Bella’s Narration
breaking
Breaking Dawn
Breaking Dawn Part
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Cinematic Installments
Cornel Sandvoss
cultural studies analysis
dawn
Derald Wing Sue
desire
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Fairy Tale
Female Audience Member
feminist literary critique
film
film adaptation theory
girlhood studies
Golden Eyes
Harlequin Romance
Horror Movies
Male Audience Members
mary
Mary Sue
meyer
Meyer's Series
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Mystery Science Theater
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Newborn Vampires
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Twilight Saga
Vampire Genre
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Vanden Bossche
young adult fiction criticism
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781409436614
- Weight: 612g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Mar 2012
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Much of the criticism on Stephenie Meyer's immensely popular 'Twilight' novels has underrated or even disparaged the books while belittling the questionable taste of an audience that many believe is being inculcated with anti-feminist values. Avoiding a repetition of such reductive critiques of the series's purported shortcomings with respect to literary merit and political correctness, this volume adopts a cultural studies framework to explore the range of scholarly concerns awakened by the 'Twilight novels and their filmic adaptations. Contributors examine 'Twilight's debts to its predecessors in young adult, vampire, and romance literature; the problems of cinematic adaptation; issues in fan and critical reception in the United States and Korea; and the relationship between the series and contemporary conceptualizations of feminism, particularly girl culture. Placing the series within a broad tradition of literary history, reception studies, and filmic adaptation, the collection offers scholars the opportunity to engage with the books' importance for studies of popular culture, gender, and young adult literature.
Anne Morey is associate professor of English at Texas A&M University. She is presently at work on a history of religious filmmaking in the United States.
