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CFP: ASA 2010 panel: Do real vampires sparkle?
| Location: | United States |
| Call for Papers Deadline: | 2010-01-10 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2009-11-22 |
| Announcement ID: |
172189 |
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The popularity of Stephanie Meyers Twilight series and the subsequent movies Twilight and New Moon has nearly reached the intense popularity of the Harry Potter series. Twilight has spawned innumerable fansites in various languages, online role playing sites, Youtube spoofs, and even Twilight proms. Ostensibly books for a tween/teen audience, Twilight has also captured the imagination of older audiences. Few who are familiar with this popular culture phenomenon stay neutral. Consumers tend to fall into the “love it” or “hate it” camp, with little objective analysis in between. This panel seeks to present a variety of cultural analyses of the Twilight phenomenon ranging across literature, film, media studies, gender studies and deconstruction of the phenomenon itself. Papers should seek to place Twilight within broad interdisciplinary and theoretical frameworks, and might explore a variety of topics, for example the relationship between Twilight and feminism, fan culture, constructions of desire, masculinity, adolescence, class or ethnicity, teen audiences, depictions of class and small town life, adolescent role models, virtual networks and/or the evolution of fantasy worlds. Please submit a 1-page abstract and brief cv to Kim.Hewitt@esc.edu by January 10, 2010
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