Postfeminism and Contemporary Vampire Romance: Representations of Gender and Sexuality in Film and Television
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AlbakiReads Editorial Vampire romance as a lens on postfeminist cultural politics
Vampire romance as a lens on postfeminist cultural politics
Lea Gerhards examines Twilight, The Vampire Diaries, and True Blood as popular vampire-romance texts shaped by—and contributing to—debates around postfeminism. Her study connects their supernatural love stories to questions of gender, sexuality, bodily subjectivity, agency, and power in heterosexual relationships. Attending to tensions and conflicting meanings within the three series, the book considers how they engage with everyday sexism, violence against women, sexual autonomy and pleasure, empowerment, and self-surveillance. It also frames their popularity as a cultural question, asking which desires, anxieties, and forms of pleasure these narratives negotiate.
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- Students and researchers of film, television, and popular culture
- Readers interested in feminist and postfeminist media analysis
- Fans of Twilight, The Vampire Diaries, or True Blood seeking scholarly context
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PostfeminismVampire romanceGender and sexualityAgency and powerMedia culture
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Book Overview In this book, Lea Gerhards traces connections between three recent vampire romance series; the Twilight film series (2008-2012), The Vamp...
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?
Book Details Format: Paperback | Pages: 288 | Language: English | Publisher: BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC | ISBN: 1350215694
FormatPaperback
Pages288
LanguageEnglish
ISBN1350215694
EAN9781350215696
PublisherBLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC
Publication Date2023-12-28
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeQUALITY PAPERBACK BOOKS
Weight0.73 Pounds
Length8.5 Inches
Width5.5 Inches
Height0.6 Inches
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