Hunger Games - Spectacle, Risk and the Girl Action Hero

Informationen zum Autor Catherine Driscoll is Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. Her research focuses on youth and girl culture, popular culture, modernity, and rural cultural studies. She is also author of Girls, Modernist Cultural Studies, Teen Film , and The Australian Country Girl. Alexandra Heatwole is a researcher in media and gender studies, specialising in girl studies, youth culture, speculative fictions, and sexuality and reproductive technology. Since her doctorate, Renegotiating the Heroine: Postfeminism on the Speculative Screen (Sydney, 2015), she has published on princess culture and girl heroes. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction ‘The Hunger Games’ Chapter 1 Choose Your Own Adventure: Survival, Adulthood and Other Fantasies Chapter 2 Katniss Everdeen, Girl Hero Chapter 3 The Train from District 12: Panem as Dystopia Chapter 4 Team Katniss: In the Arena of Romance Chapter 5 ‘The Hunger Memes’: Film, Fans, and Speculation as Critique

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• Authors: Catherine Driscoll, Catherine (University of Sydney Driscoll, Catherine Heatwole Driscoll, Driscoll Catherine, Alex Heatwole, Alexandra Heatwole, Yannis Tzioumakis
• Assisted by: Alexandra Heatwole (Editor of the series), Sian Lincoln (Editor of the series), Yannis Tzioumakis (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.05.2018
• EAN: 9781138683068
• ISBN: 978-1-138-68306-8
• No. of pages: 112
• Series: Cinema and Youth Cultures; Cinema and Youth Cultures
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; History, Media Studies, Sociology, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Humanities, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism