The Hunger Games: Spectacle, Risk and the Girl Action Hero

Author:   Catherine Driscoll ,  Alexandra Heatwole ,  Alexandra Heatwole ,  Yannis Tzioumakis (University of Liverpool, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781138683068


Pages:   112
Publication Date:   10 May 2018
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Catherine Driscoll ,  Alexandra Heatwole ,  Alexandra Heatwole ,  Yannis Tzioumakis (University of Liverpool, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.317kg
ISBN:  

9781138683068


ISBN 10:   113868306
Pages:   112
Publication Date:   10 May 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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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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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.

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