Driscoll / Heatwole The Hunger Games

Spectacle, Risk and the Girl Action Hero
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-134-82980-4
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 124 Seiten

Reihe: Cinema and Youth Cultures

This book considers "The Hunger Games" as an intertextual field centred on this blockbuster film franchise but also encompassing the successful novels that preceded them and the merchandised imagery and the critical and fan discourse that surrounds them. It emphasizes the place of "The Hunger Games" in the history of youth-oriented cinema, in the history of speculative fiction centred on adolescents, in a network of continually evolving and tightly connected popular genres, and in the popular history of changing ideas about girlhood from which a successful action hero like Katniss Everdeen could emerge.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Driscoll, Catherine

Heatwole, Alex

Heatwole, Alexandra

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Adaptation and "The Hunger Games", an Introduction

2. Choose Your Own Adventure: Survival, adulthood and other fantasies

3. Katniss Everdeen, Girl Hero

4. Team Katniss: In the arena of romance

5. The Train from District 12: Panem as dystopia

6. "The Hunger Memes": Fans, anti-fans, and speculation as critique