The Twilight saga, a series of five films adapted from Stephanie Meyer's four vampire novels, has been a sensation, both at the box office and through the attention it has won from its predominantly teenaged fans. This series has also been the subject of criticism and sometimes derision - often from critics and on occasion even from fans. However, it also offers rich opportunities for analytic and critical attention, which the contributors to Screening Twilight demonstrate with energy and style. Through examining Twilight, the book unpacks how this popular group of films work as cinematic texts, what they have to say about cinema and culture today, and how fans may seek to re-read or subvert these messages. The chapters addressTwilight in the context of the vampire and myth, in terms of genre and reception, identity, gender and sexuality, and through re-viewing the series fandom. Screening Twilight is also a revelation of how a popular cinematic phenomenon like Twilight rewards close attention from contemporary critical scholars of cinema and culture.

1. Mute Monsters and Vocal [Fan] Critics: Genre and ReceptionGuilty Pleasures: Twilight, snark and ironic fandomFrancesca Haig'Cue the Shrieking Virgins'?: The Critical Reception of the Twilight SagaMark JankovichThe Twilight Saga: Genre and ReceptionNia Edwards-Behi2. Werewolves, Lions and Lambs: Creating and Subverting the MythWhy Twilight Sucks And Edward Doesn't: Contemporary Vampires and the Sentimental TraditionJudith KohlenbergerThe Lore of the WildDr Caroline RuddellNorthwest Small Town Gothic: Location and Space in the Twilight FilmsDr Ian Conrich3. Romancing the Tomb: Gender and SexualityMy distaste for Forks': Twilight, oral gratification and self-denial Ruth O'DonnellOf Masochistic Lions and Stupid Lambs: The Ambiguous Nature of Sexuality and Sexual Awakening in TwilightMarion Rana'Venus in Fangs': Negotiating Masochism in TwilightMark Adams4. The Politics of Pallor: Post-colonialism and Racial WhitenessThe Cullens: The Mimicry of the Post-Colonial VampireSimon BaconRacial Whiteness and Twilight Ewan Kirkland5. Slash and Burn: Deviating Fandom and Re-writing the TextTwilight's Queer Communities: Family and FandomR. Justin Hunt, : Projected Interactivity and All Human Twilight FanficBrigid CherryNormal Female Interest in Vampires and Werewolves Bonking: Slash and the Reconstruction of Meaning Bethan JonesIndex