I confess, I saw that paper a year ago, downloaded it to read, and found it silly enough that I stopped reading early on.
This is not to say that none of its points are valid. In fact, I'll take a look at it later (next week, probably) and give you some more specific feedback. But getting back to the point you mentioned in this post, that Twilight has increasingly overt Mormonism as the series progresses: some of the author's points in that paper have to do with what isn't in the books, rather than what is*. A lack of anything isn't necessarily going to resonate with most viewers as being typically Mormon. There's not much to repress to avoid overt Mormonism in the film series if what's making the book a reflection of Mormonism is what isn't in it.
Well, other than sex. That's the one I see mentioned a lot. And while I've said in one of my posts about the series that the lack of sex could be viewed as a Mormon aspect of the books**, it's also part of the style in some romance novels--lots of lead-up but no sex until near the end, close to the 'happily ever after' stuff. (Plus Mormons didn't exactly copyright abstinence before marriage, either.)
*Some of the other aspects mentioned in the paper are viewpoints that are common in lots of religions, and for lots of non-religious people as well, such as the importance of marriage and family in life, the idea that we have the ability to choose.
**When I've asked other Mormons if they view anything in the books as being obviously influenced by our religion, the no-sex-before-marriage is the one (and usually only) thing they mention.
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This is not to say that none of its points are valid. In fact, I'll take a look at it later (next week, probably) and give you some more specific feedback. But getting back to the point you mentioned in this post, that Twilight has increasingly overt Mormonism as the series progresses: some of the author's points in that paper have to do with what isn't in the books, rather than what is*. A lack of anything isn't necessarily going to resonate with most viewers as being typically Mormon. There's not much to repress to avoid overt Mormonism in the film series if what's making the book a reflection of Mormonism is what isn't in it.
Well, other than sex. That's the one I see mentioned a lot. And while I've said in one of my posts about the series that the lack of sex could be viewed as a Mormon aspect of the books**, it's also part of the style in some romance novels--lots of lead-up but no sex until near the end, close to the 'happily ever after' stuff. (Plus Mormons didn't exactly copyright abstinence before marriage, either.)
*Some of the other aspects mentioned in the paper are viewpoints that are common in lots of religions, and for lots of non-religious people as well, such as the importance of marriage and family in life, the idea that we have the ability to choose.
**When I've asked other Mormons if they view anything in the books as being obviously influenced by our religion, the no-sex-before-marriage is the one (and usually only) thing they mention.