{"product_id":"9781350215696","title":"Postfeminism and Contemporary Vampire Romance : Representations of Gender and Sexuality in Film and Television (Library of Gender and Popular Culture)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShe 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?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49860556849400,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":80.19,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/8208\/6904\/files\/9781350215696-1.jpg?v=1783687185","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.au\/ja\/products\/9781350215696","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}