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040 _aAFVC
100 _aVogels, Christina
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245 _aIs Edward Cullen a “good” boyfriend? :
_byoung men talk about Twilight, masculinity and the rules of (hetero)romance
_cChristina Vogels
260 _bInternational Association for the Study of Popular Romance,
_c2017
500 _aJournal of Popular Romance Studies, 2017, Advance online publication, 26 December 2017
520 _aThe 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. (Author's abstract). A subsequent article based on this research is published in Rural Sociology (#6260).Record #6261
650 _aADOLESCENT RELATIONSHIP ABUSE
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650 _aATTITUDES
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650 _aINTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION
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650 5 _9325
_aINTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS
650 _aMASCULINITY
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650 _aRURAL AREAS
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650 _aSCHOOLS
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650 _aVIOLENCE
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650 _aYOUNG MEN
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651 4 _aNEW ZEALAND
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773 0 _tJournal of Popular Romance Studies, 2017, Advance online publication, 26 December 2017
830 _aJournal of Popular Romance Studies
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856 _uhttp://hdl.handle.net/10292/11129
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