Is Edward Cullen a "good" boyfriend: Young men talk about Twilight, masculinity and the rules of (hetero)romance

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aut.relation.journalJournal of Popular Romance Studiesen_NZ
aut.relation.pages20
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aut.relation.volume6en_NZ
aut.researcherVogels, Christina
dc.contributor.authorVogels, Cen_NZ
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-23T01:22:40Z
dc.date.available2018-01-23T01:22:40Z
dc.date.copyright2017-12-26en_NZ
dc.date.issued2017-12-26en_NZ
dc.description.abstractThe popular romance is a pervasive and ubiquitous part of popular culture, which has been critically and rigorously analysed by a wide range of scholars. While this body of work is diverse in its critiques of popular romance, studies often share a common research question: how are the narratives embedded within these love stories understood by those who consume them? While women are undoubtedly the target market for this genre, my research takes a different, less orthodox approach to answering this question. Drawing from a broader study on how young men make sense of being boyfriends and (hetero)romance, I asked twenty-two young men from a high school in Aotearoa/New Zealand about their interpretations of a well-known young adult text that can also be classified as contemporary popular romance, Twilight. By talking with young men about Twilight, and, in particular, Edward Cullen, I was able to garner insights into how they decoded gendered performances of (hetero)romance within the film and more generally, what it means to be a “good” boyfriend.
dc.identifier.citationJournal of Popular Romance Studies (2017), Vol. 6
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10292/11129
dc.publisherJournal of Popular Romance Studies
dc.relation.urihttp://jprstudies.org/2017/12/is-edward-cullen-a-good-boyfriend-young-men-talk-about-twilight-masculinity-and-the-rules-of-heteroromanceby-christina-vogels/en_NZ
dc.rightsThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
dc.rights.accessrightsOpenAccessen_NZ
dc.subject(hetero)romance; Gender hegemony; Hegemonic masculinity; Male femininities; Male oppression; Pariah femininities; Twilight
dc.titleIs Edward Cullen a "good" boyfriend: Young men talk about Twilight, masculinity and the rules of (hetero)romanceen_NZ
dc.typeJournal Article
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