New Moon, the second film adaptation of the incredibly successful Twilight book series, hits theaters this week. It’s expected to gross hundreds of millions of dollars, largely from ticket sales to tween and teen girls. But some feminist scholars have taken issue with the series, decrying it as a dangerously romanticized fantasy about a possessive, violent stalker.
In one of the more stinging takedowns, contributors to the recent pop-culture philosophy book Twilight and Philosophy conclude, among other things, that protagonist Bella Swan is a victim of domestic abuse.
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