Postfeminism and Contemporary Vampire Romance

Representations of Gender and Sexuality in Film and Television

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

AvLea Gerhards,Germany) Gerhards, Lea (Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information,Claire Nally

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In this book, Lea Gerhards traces connections between three recent vampire romance series; the Twilight film series (2008-2012), The Vampire Diaries (2009-2017) and True Blood (2008-2014), exploring their tremendous discursive and ideological power in order to understand the cultural politics of these extremely popular texts. She uses contemporary vampire romance to examine postfeminist ideologies and discuss gender, sexuality, subjectivity, agency and the body. Discussing a range of conflicting meanings contained in the narratives, Gerhards critically looks genre’s engagement with everyday sexism and violence against women, power relations in heterosexual relationships, sexual autonomy and pleasure, (self-) empowerment, and (self-) surveillance. She asks: Why are these genre texts so popular right now, what specific desires, issues and fears are addressed and negotiated by them, and what kinds of pleasures do they offer?

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-12-28
Mått136 x 214 x 20 mm
Vikt360 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieLibrary of Gender and Popular Culture
Antal sidor288
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350215696

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AcknowledgementsSeries Editors’ IntroductionIntroduction: The Cultural Politics of Contemporary Vampire Romance1. More than a Backlash: The Contradictions of Postfeminist Culture2. Paranormal Romance: A Quintessentially Postfeminist Genre?3. The Politics of Looking: Female Protagonists between Subject and Object4. Vampire Transformation as Makeover: The Making of Ideal Postfeminist Subjects5. Fantasy Solutions to Postfeminist Culture: Vampire Heroes and Postfeminist MasculinityConclusion: Paradoxical PleasuresNotesBibliographyIndex