Theorizing Twilight

Maggie Parke completed her doctorate in film and digital media at Bangor University, Wales. She has published in the Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds and is currently the head of development for Elfin Productions and a freelance consultant for fan management and script development. Natalie Wilson is a professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Cal State San Marcos in San Diego, California. She writes and teaches in the areas of popular culture, film, television, horror, women’s literature, and feminism.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments     Introduction      Part I. Twilight as Pop Cultural Artifact: Pilgrimages, Fan Culture, and Film AdaptationsThe Vampire Capital of the World: Commerce and Enchantment in Forks, WashingtonTANYA ERZEN      Fanpires: Utilizing Fan Culture in Event Film AdaptationsMAGGIE PARKE      The Hero and the Id: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry into the Popularity of TwilightHEATHER ANASTASIU      Someday My Vampire Will Come? Society’s (and the Media’s) Lovesick Infatuation with Prince- Like VampiresCOLETTE MURPHY      Team Bella: Fans Navigating Desire, Security, and FeminismANANYA MUKHERJEA      Part II. Once Upon a Twilight: Fairy Tales, Byronic (Anti) Heroes, Post- Feminist Romance, and Growing Up in a Twilight World“How Old Are You?” Representations of Age in the SagaASHLEY BENNING      Read Only as Directed: Psychology, Intertextuality, and Hyperreality in the SeriesANGELA TENGA      Torn Between Two Lovers: Twilight Tames Wuthering HeightsSARAH WAKEFIELD      Rewriting the Byronic Hero: How the Twilight Saga Turned “Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know” into a Teen Fiction PhenomenonJESSICA GROPER      A Post- Feminist Romance: Love, Gender and Intertextuality in Stephenie Meyer’s SagaHILA SHACHAR      Part III. Twilight Through an Intersectional Lens: Patriarchy, White Privilege, Heteronormativity, Rape Culture, ReligionMaybe Edward Is the Most Dangerous Thing Out There: The Role of PatriarchyMELISSA MILLER      Denial and Salvation: The Twilight Series and Heteronormative PatriarchyASHLEY DONNELLY      It’s a Wolf Thing: The Quileute Werewolf /Shape- Shifter Hybrid as Noble SavageNATALIE WILSON      Violence, Agency, and the Women of TwilightANNE TORKELSON      Un-biting the Apple and Killing the Womb: Genesis, Gender, and GynocideLINDSEY ISSOW AVERILL      About the Contributors      Index

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