Wickham Clayton's completed PhD thesis for Roehampton University is on the aesthetics of the Friday the 13th film franchise and he has contributed to several edited collections. Sarah Harman is researching the role of the masochistic female body in paracinema at Brunel University.

'Harman and Clayton have gathered together a dynamic mix of writers who tackle the series in all its complexities [ - ] This book is a must-read.' Stacey Abbott, Reader in Film and Television Studies, University of Roehampton 'Screening Twilight [ - ] examines not only the texts but also how fans and critics have responded to them and it opens up a lively discussion of the cultural significance of this new twist in the vampire tale. In short, this is a terrific book.' Milly Williams, Senior Lecturer in Film and TV Studies, Brunel University

• 1. Mute Monsters and Vocal [Fan] Critics: Genre and ReceptionGuilty Pleasures: Twilight, snark and ironic fandomFrancesca Haig'Cue the Shrieking Virgins'?: The Critical Reception of the Twilight SagaMark JankovichThe Twilight Saga: Genre and ReceptionNia Edwards-Behi2. Werewolves, Lions and Lambs: Creating and Subverting the MythWhy Twilight Sucks And Edward Doesn’t: Contemporary Vampires and the Sentimental TraditionJudith KohlenbergerThe Lore of the WildDr Caroline RuddellNorthwest Small Town Gothic: Location and Space in the Twilight FilmsDr Ian Conrich3. Romancing the Tomb: Gender and SexualityMy distaste for Forks’: Twilight, oral gratification and self-denial Ruth O’DonnellOf Masochistic Lions and Stupid Lambs: The Ambiguous Nature of Sexuality and Sexual Awakening in TwilightMarion Rana'Venus in Fangs': Negotiating Masochism in TwilightMark Adams4. The Politics of Pallor: Post-colonialism and Racial WhitenessThe Cullens: The Mimicry of the Post-Colonial VampireSimon BaconRacial Whiteness and Twilight Ewan Kirkland5. Slash and Burn: Deviating Fandom and Re-writing the TextTwilight’s Queer Communities: Family and FandomR. Justin Hunt, : Projected Interactivity and All Human Twilight FanficBrigid CherryNormal Female Interest in Vampires and Werewolves Bonking: Slash and the Reconstruction of Meaning Bethan JonesIndex

Wickham Clayton's completed PhD thesis for Roehampton University is on the aesthetics of the Friday the 13th film franchise and he has contributed to several edited collections. Sarah Harman is researching the role of the masochistic female body in paracinema at Brunel University.

'Harman and Clayton have gathered together a dynamic mix of writers who tackle the series in all its complexities [ - ] This book is a must-read.' Stacey Abbott, Reader in Film and Television Studies, University of Roehampton 'Screening Twilight [ - ] examines not only the texts but also how fans and critics have responded to them and it opens up a lively discussion of the cultural significance of this new twist in the vampire tale. In short, this is a terrific book.' Milly Williams, Senior Lecturer in Film and TV Studies, Brunel University

• 1. Mute Monsters and Vocal [Fan] Critics: Genre and ReceptionGuilty Pleasures: Twilight, snark and ironic fandomFrancesca Haig'Cue the Shrieking Virgins'?: The Critical Reception of the Twilight SagaMark JankovichThe Twilight Saga: Genre and ReceptionNia Edwards-Behi2. Werewolves, Lions and Lambs: Creating and Subverting the MythWhy Twilight Sucks And Edward Doesn’t: Contemporary Vampires and the Sentimental TraditionJudith KohlenbergerThe Lore of the WildDr Caroline RuddellNorthwest Small Town Gothic: Location and Space in the Twilight FilmsDr Ian Conrich3. Romancing the Tomb: Gender and SexualityMy distaste for Forks’: Twilight, oral gratification and self-denial Ruth O’DonnellOf Masochistic Lions and Stupid Lambs: The Ambiguous Nature of Sexuality and Sexual Awakening in TwilightMarion Rana'Venus in Fangs': Negotiating Masochism in TwilightMark Adams4. The Politics of Pallor: Post-colonialism and Racial WhitenessThe Cullens: The Mimicry of the Post-Colonial VampireSimon BaconRacial Whiteness and Twilight Ewan Kirkland5. Slash and Burn: Deviating Fandom and Re-writing the TextTwilight’s Queer Communities: Family and FandomR. Justin Hunt, : Projected Interactivity and All Human Twilight FanficBrigid CherryNormal Female Interest in Vampires and Werewolves Bonking: Slash and the Reconstruction of Meaning Bethan JonesIndex