Screening Twilight : critical approaches to a cinematic phenomenon /: critical approaches to a cinematic phenomenon. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Wickham Clayton and Sarah Harman.
• Other Names: Clayton, Wickham; Harman, Sarah
• Contents: Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Mute Monsters and Vocal [Fan/] Critics: Genre and Reception -- 1. Guilty Pleasures: Twilight, Snark and Critical Fandom / Francesca Haig -- 2. 'Cue the Shrieking Virgins'?: The Critical Reception of The Twilight Saga / Mark Jancovich -- 3. 'Flicks for Chicks (and Chicks with Dicks) Who Can't Take Serious Horror': The Generic Misrecognition of The Twilight Saga / Nia Edwards-Behi -- 4. The Pageant of Her Bleeding Twi-hard Heart: Twilight, Femininity, Sexuality, and Female Consumption / Sarah Harman -- pt. 2 Werewolves, Lions and Lambs: Creating and Subverting the Generic Myth -- 5. Why Twilight Sucks and Edward Doesn't: Contemporary Vampires and the Sentimental Tradition / Judith Kohlenberger -- 6. The Lore of the Wild / Caroline Ruddell -- 7. 'Where Have All the Monsters Gone? Long Time Passing': The Aesthetics of Absence and Generic Subversion in New Moon / Wickham Clayton -- pt. 3 Romancing the Tomb: Sexual Dysfunction and Sexuality. Contents note continued: 8. 'My Distaste for Forks': Twilight, Oral Gratification and Self-Denial / Ruth O'Donnell -- 9. Of Masochistic Lions and Stupid Lambs: The Ambiguous Nature of Sexuality and Sexual Awakening in Twilight / Marion Rana -- 10. 'Venus in Fangs': Negotiating Masochism in Twilight / Mark Richard Adams -- pt. 4 The Politics of Pallor: Post-colonialism and Racial Whiteness, Queered? -- 11. The Cullens: Family, Mimicry and the Post-Colonial Vampire / Simon Bacon -- 12. Racial Whiteness and Twilight / Ewan Kirkland -- 13. Scent, Siblings and the Filial: Queering Twilight / R. Justin Hunt -- pt. 5 Slash and Burn: Deviating Fandom and Rewriting the Text -- 14. Defanging the Vampire: Projected Interactivity and All Human Twilight Fan-fic / Brigid Cherry -- 15. Normal Female Interest in Vampires and Werewolves Bonking: Slash and the Reconstruction of Meaning / Bethan Jones.
• Publisher Details: London New York : I.B. Tauris
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 216 pages)
• Subjects: 791.4 23; Twilight saga films; Vampire films -- History and criticism; PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference; Twilight saga films; Vampire films; Adaptation till film; Vampyrfilm; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Film adaptations; Film adaptations
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857723604; 9780857736543
• Related ISBNs: 085772360X; 085773654X; 9781780766652; 1780766653; 9781780766669; 1780766661
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.