Screening Twilight : critical approaches to a cinematic phenomenon /

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Imprint:	London : I.B. Tauris, 2014. New York : Palgrave Macmillan
Description:	xiv, 216 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Meyer, Stephenie, -- 1973- -- Twilight saga. Meyer, Stephenie, -- 1973- -- Film adaptations. Meyer, Stephenie, -- 1973- Twilight saga (Meyer, Stephenie) Twilight saga films. Vampire films -- History and criticism. Twilight saga films. Vampire films. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Film adaptations.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10081963

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Other authors / contributors:	Clayton, Wickham, editor of compilation. Harman, Sarah, editor of compilation.
ISBN:	9781780766652 (hardback) 1780766653 (hardback) 9781780766669 (paperback) 1780766661 (paperback)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	The Twilight Saga', a series of five films adapted from Stephanie Meyer's four novels, has been a sensation, both at the box office and through the attention it has won from its predominantly teenaged fans. As popular cinema, the series has had its share of criticism, even from fans. However, it also offers rich opportunities for critical attention, which the contributors to 'Screening Twilight' provide with energy and style. The book unpacks how this popular group of films work as cinematic texts, what they have to say about cinema and culture today, and how fans may seek to re-read or subvert these messages. Chapters address Twilight in the context of the vampire and myth, in terms of genre and reception, identity, gender and sexuality, and through re-viewing the series fandom. 'Screening Twilight' is a revelation of how a popular cinematic phenomenon can reward close attention from scholarly, critical writers on cinema and culture.

Table of Contents:

1. Mute Monsters and Vocal [Fan] Critics: Genre and Reception
2. Guilty Pleasures: Twilight, Snark and Ironic Fandom
3. 'Cue the Shrieking Virgins'?: The Critical Reception of the Twilight Saga
4. The Twilight Saga: Genre and Reception
5. Werewolves, Lions and Lambs: Creating and Subverting the Myth
6. Why Twilight Sucks And Edward Doesn't: Contemporary Vampires and the Sentimental Tradition
7. The Lore of the Wild
8. Northwest Small Town Gothic: Location and Space in the Twilight Films
9. Romancing the Tomb: Gender and Sexuality
10. My Distaste for Forks': Twilight, Oral Gratification and Self-denial
11. Of Masochistic Lions and Stupid Lambs: The Ambiguous Nature of Sexuality and Sexual Awakening in Twilight
12. 'Venus in Fangs': Negotiating Masochism in Twilight
13. The Politics of Pallor: Post-colonialism and Racial Whiteness
14. The Cullens: The Mimicry of the Post-Colonial Vampire
15. Racial Whiteness and Twilight
16. Slash and Burn: Deviating Fandom and Re-writing the Text
17. Twilight's Queer Communities: Family and Fandom: Projected Interactivity and All Human Twilight Fanfic
18. Normal Female Interest in Vampires and Werewolves Bonking: Slash and the Reconstruction of Meaning
Index

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