Response #11 – “Safe Sex with Defanged Vampires”
Does this article have a literature review? Where? What function does it serve? (1 pt)
What is Nakagawa’s thesis? (1 pt)
The author talks a lot about the similarities between the Twilight series and the Southern Vampire Mystery series, but ultimately implies that the themes begin to diverge later in each series. How? How could one argue this is logical, based on the target audience and age of the heroines? (2 pts)
Nakagawa says:
“In other words, these new vampire romance novels uphold the traditional fantasy of emotional bonding and merging of self through sexual intercourse” (10).
Explain why the author thinks this? Does this attention to traditional values change the way you think about either of these stories? (2 pts)
Twilight was popular with several generations of women, and some men. Evaluate what about the movie and the characters made it so popular. (2 pts)
