Postfeminism and Contemporary Vampire Romance

Representations of Gender and Sexuality in Film and Television

AvLea Gerhards,Claire Nally

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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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

Utgivningsdatum:2023-12-28
Mått:140 x 216 x 15 mm
Vikt:336 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Library of Gender and Popular Culture
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350215696

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Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
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Film inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Lea Gerhards is Research Associate at the Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information, Germany. Her research interests include gender and queer studies, feminist theory, and popular culture studies.

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Insightful, compelling and provocative, this book offers an enlightening analysis of the global phenomenon of vampire romance that has as much to tell us about gender, sexuality and post-feminism as it does the vampires that we love, or love to hate. A must-read for fans and scholars alike

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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