Bringing light to Twilight: perspectives on a pop culture phenomenon

The essays in this collection use the interpretative lens to interrogate the meanings of Meyer's books, making a compelling case for the cultural relevanceof Twilight and providing insights on how we can 'read' popular culture to our best advantage. GISELLE LIZA ANATOL is Associate Professor of English at the University ofKansas, USA, and the editor of two previous books, Reading Harry Potter: Critical Essays (Praeger 2003) and Reading Harry Potter Again: New Critical Essays(Praeger 2009). She has published extensively on representations of motherhood in contemporary Caribbean literature, and representations of race and ethnicity in contemporary children's literature. She has blogged about her research into the Twilight phenomenon for the University of Stirling's web forum, 'The Gothic Imagination.' INDICE: Introduction;' G.L.Anatol - 'PART I: LITERARY CONTEXTS, PAST AND PRESENT - The Wolf in the Woods: Representations of 'Little Red Riding Hood' in'Twilight'; 'M.Kramar - 'Textual Vampirism in the 'Twilight' Saga: Drawing Feminist Life from 'Jane Eyre' and Teen Fantasy Fiction; 'K.Deffenbacher' & 'M.Zagoria-Moffet - 'Serial Experiments in Popular Culture: The Resignification ofGothic Symbology in 'Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter' and the 'Twilight' Series; 'C.Veldman-Genz - Twilight', Translated; 'K.Allen Gleed - 'Variations, Subversions and Endless Love: Fan Fiction and the 'Twilight' Saga; 'M.Lindgren Leavenworth - 'True Blood Waits: The Romance of Law and Literature; 'M.Wallis - 'PART II: GENDER AND SEXUALITY - Wake Up, Bella! A Personal Essay on Twilight, Mormonism, Feminism, and Happiness; 'T.Dietz - ''When you kiss me, I want to die': Arrested Feminism in 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' and the 'Twilight' Series; 'R.Nicol - ''One is not born a vampire, but becomes one': Motherhood, Masochism, and Male Mothering in 'Twilight'; 'M.Whitton - 'Of Monsters and Men: Toxic Masculinity and the 21st-Century Vampire in the 'Twilight' Saga; 'T.Bealer' - The Other Edward: Twilight's Queer Construction of the Vampire as Idealized Teenage Boyfriend; 'J.Somers' & 'A.L.Hume' - PART III: CLASS, RACE, AND GREEN SPACE - 'Embraced' by Consumption: 'Twilight' and the Modern Construction of Gender; 'M.Goebel - 'Fashion Sucksb&Blood? Clothes and Covens in 'Twilight' and Hollywood Culture; 'A.Chau - 'Trailing in Jonathan Harker's Shadow: Bella as Modern-Day Ethnographer in Meyer's 'Twilight' Novels; 'J.Ok Kim' & 'G.L.Anatol - 'The Great American Love Affair: Indians in the 'Twilight' Saga;' B.Burke' - Green is the New Black: Ecophobia and the Gothic Landscape in the 'Twilight' Series;'T.K.Parmiter - '

• ISBN: 978-0-230-11067-0
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 258
• Fecha Publicación: 08/07/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés