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doi:10.22028/D291-32032
Titel: | Gender and sexuality in paranormal romance : the postfeminist agenda of contemporary vampire narratives |
VerfasserIn: | Gerhards, Lea |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2020 |
Kontrollierte Schlagwörter: | Vampir Eclipse Feminismus Geschlechterforschung Geschlecht Sexualität Gothic novel Horror Trivialroman Liebesroman Kulturwissenschaften Romance Repräsentation <Soziologie> Massenkultur Feministische Filmtheorie Subjektivität Gaze Körper Gothic True Blood Breaking Dawn New Moon The Vampire Diaries Twilight (Film) Twilight saga series |
Freie Schlagwörter: | Postfeminismus cultural politics |
DDC-Sachgruppe: | 420 Englisch 791 Öffentliche Darbietungen, Film, Rundfunk 800 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft 810 Englische Literatur Amerikas 970 Geschichte Nordamerikas |
Dokumenttyp: | Dissertation |
Abstract: | Since the mid-2000s, American popular culture has fallen under the reign of the vampire, and the bloodsucker is only slowly releasing its grip. In particular, recent years have seen the expansion of a massive vampire romance industry. By tracing the connections between three recent vampire romance series possessing tremendous discursive and ideological power, the “Twilight” film series (2008-2012) as well as the TV series “The Vampire Diaries” (2009-2017) and “True Blood” (2008-2014), this dissertation sets out to determine the cultural politics of these extraordinarily popular texts. In this research, contemporary vampire romance is understood and examined as a locus for the articulation of postfeminist ideologies, and a host to current discourses about gender, sexuality, subjectivity, agency and the body. Discussing a range of conflicting meanings contained in the narratives, this dissertation critically looks at the hybrid paranormal romance genre’s engagement with postfeminist issues, such as everyday sexism and violence against women, power relations in heterosexual relationships, sexual autonomy and pleasure, (self-)empowerment, and (self-)surveillance. As this research shows, the liminal figure of the vampire is ideally suited to incorporate postfeminism’s contradictions, working as a projection surface for postfeminist discourses surrounding gender, sexuality, subjectivation, self-discipline and the management of the body. Providing a discursive and ideological textual analysis of contemporary vampire romance, this study 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? |
Link zu diesem Datensatz: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:291--ds-320320 hdl:20.500.11880/29816 http://dx.doi.org/10.22028/D291-32032 |
Erstgutachter: | Fellner, Astrid M. |
Tag der mündlichen Prüfung: | 7-Nov-2018 |
Datum des Eintrags: | 6-Okt-2020 |
Fakultät: | P - Philosophische Fakultät |
Fachrichtung: | P - Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Anglophone Kulturen |
Professur: | P - Prof. Dr. Astrid M. Fellner |
Sammlung: | SciDok - Der Wissenschaftsserver der Universität des Saarlandes |
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Datei | Beschreibung | Größe | Format | |
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Gerhards_Gender and Sexuality in Paranormal Romance_Dissertation.pdf | Dissertation | 2,9 MB | Adobe PDF | Öffnen/Anzeigen |
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