Vampire Diaries as Postmodern Storytelling

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Acknowledgments

"Dear Diary": An Introduction to The Vampire Diaries

Kimberley McMahon-Coleman, Nina Vanessa Weber and Iris-Aya Laemmerhirt

Part I. Genre: "I live in the real world, where vampires burn in the sun"

Once Upon a Time... Reading The Vampire Diaries as a Postmodern Fairy Tale

Iris-Aya Laemmerhirt and Nina Vanessa Weber

Loss and Redemption: Marketing Romantic Love in American Paranormal Romance

Maria Marino-Faza

"We have history together": The Rhetoric of Adaptation in The Vampire Diaries

N. Rene Hoff

Part II. Gender: "I like being the eternal stud"

The Monster in the Mirror: Adolescence and Masculinity in Television's The Vampire Diaries

Kimberley McMahon-Coleman

The Female Villain and Gender Trouble

Praveena Thompson

Part III. Fan Reception: "Hashtag, you're welcome"

#Stelena vs. #Delena: The Vampire Diaries Fan Commentary on Gender, Sexuality, and Toxic Relationships

Melissa Ames

Bonnie Bennett and the Magic of Fandom

Ashley K. Smalls

Ethics in The Vampire Diaries Fan Fiction

Malin Isaksson

Part IV. (Moral) Choice and Identity: "I may just need to go get a hero hairdo of my own"

Antithetic Characters in the CW's The Vampire Diaries: When Heroes Become Villains and Villains Become Heroes

Michelle Nicole Boyer

The Dreaded "C" Word: Choice, Identity, and the Postmodern Vampires in The Vampire Diaries

Hannah Hansen

"One by friend, one by foe, and one by family": How Prophecies and Curses Influence Identity Construction in the World of The Vampire Diaries

Kari Sawden

Conclusion

Kimberley McMahon-Coleman, Nina Vanessa Weber and Iris-Aya -Laemmerhirt

Appendix A: List of Novels

Appendix B: List of Television Episodes

Works Cited

About the Contributors

Index

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• TV Filme, e rádio
• Novelas de televisão

Vampires; television