CULTURAL STUDIES researchers are interested in the production and meaning of a wide range of elements within communication culture, as well as audiences’ responses to these. Some researchers have focused on the meaning of the recent trend of dark subject matter in young-adult novels like the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer, the Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins, and Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson. As such books are made into movies, researchers may also study the cultural fascination with actors who appear in them (like Jennifer Lawrence, the star of the Hunger Games films, shown here). Murray Close/© Lionsgate/Everett Collection