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

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

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Series: Cinema and Youth Cultures

Literary CriticismFilm StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0367734524
ISBN13: 9780367734527
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 18 2020
Pages: 124
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.27 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

The 2012 film The Hunger Games and its three sequels, appearing quickly over the following three years, represent one of the most successful examples of the contemporary popularity of youth-oriented speculative film and television series. 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 explores 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.

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