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Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures, 2016 This essay examines the political and social significance of the intrusion of the supernatural into youth subcultures in two urban fantasy series: Cassandra Clare’s Mortal Instruments and Melissa Marr’s Wicked Lovely. Both series represent the idea of human youth mobility and social affiliation based on volition. The tolerant urban spaces through which
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2014
Paranormal romance is a popular genre in contemporary narrative that features romantic relationships between human beings and supernatural creatures. In recent manifestations of this genre in both television and cinema, the relationships developed between humans and vampires reveal a Deleuzian penchant towards providing insight into how organized ...
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Paranormal romance is a popular genre in contemporary narrative that features romantic relationships between human beings and supernatural creatures. In recent manifestations of this genre in both television and cinema, the relationships developed between humans and vampires reveal a Deleuzian penchant towards providing insight into how organized ...
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CONTENT [WITHOUT] WARNING: A COMPARATIVE CONTENT ANALYSIS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE SCENES IN PARANORMAL AND REALISTIC YOUNG ADULT ROMANCE NOVELS [PDF]
, 2023 Adolescent girls are at high risk of facing sexual violence during their teen years, risk potentially compounded by the media messages they consume about sexual violence and romance. I employ a coded content analysis of 10 paranormal and 10 realistic young adult romance novels to uncover the consistency of scenes of sexual violence, including sexual ...
Palmer, Margaret
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The Paranormal Is (Still) Normal: The Sociological Implications of a Survey of Paranormal Experiences in Great Britain [PDF]
Sociological Research Online, 2014 Historically, there has been limited sociological interest in the paranormal and no systematic study of reported paranormal experiences. There are also few medium-to-large-scale survey results with nationally representative populations focusing on ...
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Chapter 16 Sparkly Vampires and Shimmering Aliens: The Paranormal Romance of Stephenie Meyer
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2020
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
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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
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2015
Zombies have long been understood by critical theorists as representing social anxieties and problems - including colonialism, war and capitalism. A stable identifiable figure since Romero's Of the dead series, recent romantic texts have positioned the zombie as a sympathetic lover.
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Zombies have long been understood by critical theorists as representing social anxieties and problems - including colonialism, war and capitalism. A stable identifiable figure since Romero's Of the dead series, recent romantic texts have positioned the zombie as a sympathetic lover.
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Monsters In My Bed: Accounting For The Popularity Of Young Adult Paranormal Romances
2013Using textual analysis of 49 young adult paranormal romances, I answer what it is about the cultural milieu that makes these novels popular right now? This thesis argues that the discourse which emerges from the novels reflects contemporary discourse and narrative about the girls and young women who read the genre and who place themselves within this ...
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