Bonus Episode: The Twilight Saga

In the Weeds

I’m having trouble letting go of wolves…I’m fascinated with the way we use these predators as models for who we are, as humans, and who we are, as animals.

So, before we move on to our next topic, I thought it would be fun to look at an example from popular culture.

My friend Alisa Hartz and I discuss the Twilight movies, based on the YA novels by Stephenie Meyer, in which Bella, a teenage girl who has recently moved to a small town in the Pacific Northwest to live with her father, has to choose between two rivals for her affections, Edward (secretly a vampire) and Jacob (a werewolf).

We talk about all the cultural “stuff” these movies trade in, from fairy tales to represenations of predation and how to make sense of it all.

Spoiler Alert: We are solidly Team Jacob.

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