Genre, reception, and adaptation in the "Twilight" series

Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Other Authors: Morey, Anne.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey, England : Ashgate, c2012.
Series:Ashgate studies in childhood, 1700 to the present
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10535528
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1. Genre
  • "Famine for food, expectation for content": Jane Eyre as intertext for the "Twilight" saga / Anne Morey
  • Fantasy, subjectivity, and desire in Twilight and its sequels / Jackie C. Horne
  • Postfeminist fantasies: sexuality and femininity in Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" series / Kristine Moruzi
  • Narrative intimacy and the question of control in the "Twilight" saga / Sara K. Day
  • Bridges, nodes, and bare life: race in the "Twilight" saga / Alexandra Hidalgo
  • Girl culture and the "Twilight" franchise / Catherine Driscoll
  • Pt. 2. reception
  • "Twilight" fans represented in commercial paratexts and inter-fandoms: resisting and repurposing negative fan stereotypes / Matt Hills
  • Coming to a violent end: narrative closure and the death drive in Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" series / Rachel DuBois
  • The giddyshame paradox: why "Twilight's" anti-fans cannot stop reading a series they (love to) hate / Sarah Wagenseller Goletz
  • Between Twi-Hards and Twi-Haters: the complicated terrain of online "Twilight" audience communities / Anne Gilbert
  • Pt. 3. Adaptation
  • "I'd never given much thought to how I would die": uses (and the decline) of voiceover in the "Twilight" films / Katie Kapurch
  • Traveling in the same boat: adapting Stephenie Meyer's Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse to Film / Mark D. Cunningham
  • Adaptation and reception: the case of the "Twilight" saga in Korea / Hye Chung Han and Chan Hee Hwang.