Postfeminism and Contemporary Vampire Romance
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Postfeminism and Contemporary Vampire Romance

Representations of Gender and Sexuality in Film and Television

Lea Gerhards

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Postfeminism and Contemporary Vampire Romance

Representations of Gender and Sexuality in Film and Television

Lea Gerhards

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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?

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2022
ISBN
9781350215658
Edition
1
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Film & Video

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    Citation styles for Postfeminism and Contemporary Vampire Romance

    APA 6 Citation

    Gerhards, L. (2022). Postfeminism and Contemporary Vampire Romance (1st ed.). Bloomsbury Academic. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/3269719 (Original work published 2022)

    Chicago Citation

    Gerhards, Lea. (2022) 2022. Postfeminism and Contemporary Vampire Romance. 1st ed. Bloomsbury Academic. https://www.perlego.com/book/3269719.

    Harvard Citation

    Gerhards, L. (2022) Postfeminism and Contemporary Vampire Romance. 1st edn. Bloomsbury Academic. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/3269719 (Accessed: 3 July 2024).

    MLA 7 Citation

    Gerhards, Lea. Postfeminism and Contemporary Vampire Romance. 1st ed. Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. Web. 3 July 2024.