Comments on: Oh lovely boy: Visual pleasure in “Twilight: New Moon”

By: Screen Machine » The “to do” list:

Screen Machine » The “to do” list: — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:31:37 +0000

[...] double at Astor. Squeal! (We wrote about New Moon here.) The Nightmare Before [...]

By: Jessie

Jessie — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:22:52 +0000

Great discussion- quotes from Germaine are choice! Beau Travail and a beautiful young Gregoire Colin come to mind (cut to 15 years later, and superimpose skeezy mo, trackies and a polyester shirt…).

The discussion around Twilight is so interesting and immediately brings to mind romance novels, which are full of sex both explicit and implied, and objectified male bodies. And because romance culture is so unfiltered- so unexamined by the rest of the world- it is a massive catchment for a whole range of takes on female sexuality and experience that would never make it into a Kate Hudson rom-com for example. I think this is where Twilight comes from, and where it lives, and why it continue to compel, even though most non-twilight fans appear to agree they are objectively pretty bad films! I think the mass hysteria is related to this too- stuff that previously has been hidden, being made public.

By: Conall

Conall — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:01:28 +0000

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By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:55:21 +0000

Fresh piece, Brad. Well done covering an issue that’s rarely approached with any depth or real consideration. One for the forward.