Bitten by Twilight: youth culture, media, & the vampire franchise

I. Biting into the Twilight narrative. 1. Mormon morality and immortality in Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series / Margaret M. Toscano

2. Twilight follows tradition: analyzing "biting" critiques of vampire narratives for their portrayals of gender and sexuality / Melissa Ames

3. Civilized vampires versus savage werewolves: race and ethnicity in the Twilight series / Natalie Wilson

4. Cullen family values: gender and sexual politics in the Twilight series / Carrie Anne Platt

5. Twilight and transformations of flesh: reading the body in contemporary youth culture / Danielle Dick McGeough

6. A very queer refusal: the chilling effect of the Cullens' heteronormative embrace / Kathryn Kane

7. Taking a bite out of love: the myth of romantic love in the Twilight series / Tricia Clasen

II. Biting into the Twilight fandom. 8. Relating to Twilight: fans' responses to love and romance in the vampire franchise / Elizabeth Behm-Morawitz, Melissa A. Click, & Jennifer Stevens Aubrey

9. My mother, myself: mother-daughter bonding via the Twilight saga / Cathy Leogrande

10. Back to the woods: narrative revisions in New Moon fan fiction at Twilighted.net / Juli Parrish

11. Transnational Twilighters: A Twilight fan community in Norway / Inger-Lise Kalviknes Bore & Rebecca Williams

12. Biting back: Twilight anti-fandom and the rhetoric of superiority / Jessica Sheffield & Elyse Merlo

III. Biting into the Twilight franchise. 13. Twilight and production of the 21st century teen idol / Jennifer Stevens Aubrey, Scott Walus, & Melissa A. Click

14. Consumed by Twilight: the commodification of young adult literature / Marianne Martens

15. Touring the Twilight Zone: Cultural tourism and commodification on the Olympic Peninsula / Cyntha Willis-Chun

Afterword / Elana Levine.