What Accounts for the Popularity of Twilight Saga-From the Perspec-tive of Culture Studies

摘要

The huge success of Twilight series and its adapted films is a blockbuster in the field of literature and film industry, at-tracting a great amount of audience and creating a box-office marvel. The book series also receives a wide attention from literary critics with analysis of different perspectives. This study aims to explore what accounts for Twilight’s popularity with cultural studies, including aspects of teenage culture, masculinity, psychoanalysis, gender and sexuality. A comprehensive angel is pro-vided to look at Twilight and its transformation to a classic.