Bitten by Twilight
Youth Culture, Media, and the Vampire Franchise
©2010
Textbook
X,
302 Pages
Series:
Mediated Youth, Volume 14
Summary
Focusing on the wildly successful Twilight series, this collection of scholarly essays examines the phenomenon from diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives. Particular attention is paid to cultural, social, and economic aspects of the series and to the recurrent messages about youth, gender roles, romance, and sexuality. Essays discuss race and religion, and provide audience analyses of young adult, adult, anti-, and international fans. Other chapters are political-economic examinations into celebrity, tourism, and publishing. With new research by established and rising scholars, this volume is a significant contribution to the growing field of youth studies and complements existing feminist cultural analyses of media texts.
Details
- Pages
- X, 302
- Year
- 2010
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9781453900093
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9781433108938
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9781433108945
- DOI
- 10.3726/978-1-4539-0009-3
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2010 (November)
- Keywords
- popular culture young adult literature girls cultural studies vampires fans franchise gender Twilight youth culture media
- Published
- New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2010. X, 302 pp.
