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Title: Bitten by Twilight

Bitten by Twilight

Youth Culture, Media, and the Vampire Franchise

by Melissa A. Click (Volume editor) Jennifer Stevens Aubrey (Volume editor) Elizabeth Behm-Morawitz (Volume editor)
©2010 Textbook X, 302 Pages
Media and Communication
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.

Biographical notes

Melissa A. Click (Volume editor) Jennifer Stevens Aubrey (Volume editor) Elizabeth Behm-Morawitz (Volume editor)

The Editors: Melissa A. Click is Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Missouri. Her research interests include audience and fan studies and ideological analysis of popular culture, particularly concerning gender, race, class, and sexuality. Jennifer Stevens Aubrey is Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Missouri. She studies the ways in which media influence young people’s self-perceptions, including sexuality, body image, and gender roles. Elizabeth Behm-Morawitz is Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Missouri. She studies media representations of gender and race/ethnicity, and the effects of these portrayals on individuals and society.

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