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Category Archives: Twilight

SYLLABUS: The Living Dead in “Mythology and the Movies”

August 31, 2011

Study The Living Dead: zombies, ghosts, vampires, cyborgs, ancestors, mummies, and other mythological creatures.

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Twilight Anthropology Visits the Twilight Convention

August 21, 2010

My research student Leanne is attending the Twilight Convention in New Jersey this weekend. She writes amazing blogs about her …

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Twilight Anthropology

June 3, 2010

I am starting a research project with an undergraduate student on Twilight fan culture. We will be blogging at: http://twianthro.wordpress.com/

Good God! Twilight in Manga?

March 18, 2010

Twilight gets published as a manga-style graphic novel and the result are disconcerting.

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Rosie’s Comic-Con Guide

March 6, 2010

Rosie’s guide to Comic-Con will make your visit safer and more fun!

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Comic Books in “Mythology and the Movies”

December 7, 2009

Students in my anthropology and cinema studies course, “Mythology and the Movies,” studied fan culture this semester and compared the …

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Rosie does Comic-Con 2009

November 11, 2009

Rosie has been all over the world but Comic-Con was a new and frightening experience. See Rosie as she meets …

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Compost: My Own Personal Brand of Heroin

September 9, 2009

Several people have told me to write about unemployment but honestly, what is there to say that doesn’t sound whiny …

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Why They Hate Twilight

July 30, 2009

This woman said Twilight ruined Comic-Con and everyone knows that vampires can’t be vegetarian.

Twilight takes on Comic-Con 2009

July 24, 2009

Comic-Con 09 opens with excited Twilight fans camping out.

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Why study popular culture?

Popular culture provides a vehicle for reading all the rest of our culture because it taps into the mythical stories that guide us in our search for human meaning. And...we have great costumes!

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