Genre, Reception, and Adaptation in the "Twilight" Series - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Genre, Reception, and Adaptation in the "Twilight" Series write by Anne Morey. This book was released on 2012. Genre, Reception, and Adaptation in the "Twilight" Series available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Avoiding the reductive tendency of some recent scholarship to focus on the purported shortcomings of the 'Twilight' series with respect to literary merit and political correctness, this volume adopts a cultural studies framework to explore the range of scholarly concerns awakened by the 'Twilight' novels and their filmic adaptations. In so doing, the contributors show the series's importance for studies of popular culture, gender, reception history and young adult literature.
Genre, Reception, and Adaptation in the 'Twilight' Series
Genre, Reception, and Adaptation in the 'Twilight' Series - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Genre, Reception, and Adaptation in the 'Twilight' Series write by Anne Morey. This book was released on 2016-04-15. Genre, Reception, and Adaptation in the 'Twilight' Series available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Much of the criticism on Stephenie Meyer's immensely popular 'Twilight' novels has underrated or even disparaged the books while belittling the questionable taste of an audience that many believe is being inculcated with anti-feminist values. Avoiding a repetition of such reductive critiques of the series's purported shortcomings with respect to literary merit and political correctness, this volume adopts a cultural studies framework to explore the range of scholarly concerns awakened by the 'Twilight novels and their filmic adaptations. Contributors examine 'Twilight's debts to its predecessors in young adult, vampire, and romance literature; the problems of cinematic adaptation; issues in fan and critical reception in the United States and Korea; and the relationship between the series and contemporary conceptualizations of feminism, particularly girl culture. Placing the series within a broad tradition of literary history, reception studies, and filmic adaptation, the collection offers scholars the opportunity to engage with the books' importance for studies of popular culture, gender, and young adult literature.
Breaking Dawn
Breaking Dawn - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Breaking Dawn write by Stephenie Meyer. This book was released on 2008-08-02. Breaking Dawn available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the explosive finale to the epic romantic saga, Bella has one final choice to make. Should she stay mortal and strengthen her connection to the werewolves, or leave it all behind to become a vampire? When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give, how could you not give it? If it was someone you truly loved? To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for Edward Cullen, and in another by her profound connection to werewolf Jacob Black, a tumultuous year of temptation, loss, and strife have led her to the ultimate turning point. Her imminent choice to either join the dark but seductive world of immortals or to pursue a fully human life has become the thread from which the fates of two tribes hangs. This astonishing, breathlessly anticipated conclusion to the Twilight Saga illuminates the secrets and mysteries of this spellbinding romantic epic. It's here! #1 bestselling author Stephenie Meyer makes a triumphant return to the world of Twilight with the highly anticipated companion, Midnight Sun: the iconic love story of Bella and Edward told from the vampire's point of view. "People do not want to just read Meyer's books; they want to climb inside them and live there." -- Time "A literary phenomenon." -- The New York Times
The Vampire Goes to College
The Vampire Goes to College - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Vampire Goes to College write by Lisa A. Nevárez. This book was released on 2013-12-23. The Vampire Goes to College available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of original essays presents pedagogical tools, methods, and approaches for incorporating the figure of the vampire into the learning environment of the college classroom, in the hopes of ushering the Undead out of the coffin and into the classroom. The essays foster interdisciplinary collaboration and dialogue, and serve as a collective resource for those currently teaching the vampire as well as newcomers to vampire studies. Opening with a foreword by Sam George, the collection is organized around such topics as historicizing the vampire, teaching the diverse vampire, and engaging the student learner. Interwoven throughout the volume are strategies for incorporating writing instruction and generating conversations about texts ("texts" defined broadly so as to include film and other media). The vampire allows instructors to explore timeless themes such as life and death, love and passion, immortality, and monstrosity and Otherness.
Heightened Genre and Women's Filmmaking in Hollywood
Heightened Genre and Women's Filmmaking in Hollywood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Heightened Genre and Women's Filmmaking in Hollywood write by Mary Harrod. This book was released on 2021-05-24. Heightened Genre and Women's Filmmaking in Hollywood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Despite the widely publicised prejudice faced by women in Hollywood, since around 1990 a significant minority of female directors have been making commercially and culturally impactful films there across the full range of genres. This book explores movies by filmmakers Amy Heckerling, Nora Ephron, Nancy Meyers, Catherine Hardwicke, Sofia Coppola, Kimberly Peirce, Kathryn Bigelow and Greta Gerwig, including many which are still critically neglected or derided, seeing them as offering a new understanding of genre filmmaking. That is, like many other contemporary films but in a striking proportion within the smaller set of mainstream movies by women, this body of work revels in a heightened genre status that allows its authors to simultaneously address ‘intellectual’ cinephilic pleasures and bodily-emotive ones. Arguing through close analysis that these films demonstrate the inseparability of such strategies of engagement in contemporary genre cinema, Heightened Genre reclaims women’s mainstream filmmaking for feminism through a recalibration of genre theory itself.
