Bitten by Twilight
Subtitle: youth culture, media, & the vampire franchise
By: edited by Melissa A. Click, Jennifer Stevens Aubrey, & Elizabeth Behm-Morawitz
Series: Mediated youth -- v. 14; Mediated youth -- v. 14.
Publisher: Peter Lang; Peter Lang Publishing
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9781433108945; 9781433108938
Description: 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. -- Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.