Series Volume Number
35
Number of Volumes
1 Vol.
Lc Classification Number
Ps3603.O4558z84 2012
Reviews
"essential reading"-- SFRA Review "a collection of well-written and thought-provoking essays.well-crafted"-- Fanboy Comics ., "essential reading"-- SFRA Review ; "a collection of well-written and thought-provoking essays.well-crafted"-- Fanboy Comics ., "essential reading"- SFRA Review ; "a collection of well-written and thought-provoking essays.well-crafted"- Fanboy Comics .
Table of Content
Table of Contents Acknowledgments viii Preface (Leisa A. Clark) Introduction (Mary F. Pharr and Leisa A. Clark) I. History, Politics, Economics and Culture 1. Panem in America: Crisis Economics and a Call for Political Engagement (Bill Clemente) 2. Absolute Power Games (Anthony Pavlik) 3. Communal Spectacle: Reshaping History and Memory through Violence (Gretchen Koenig) 4. Reection in a Plastic Mirror (Valerie Estelle Frankel) 5. Coal Dust and Ballads: Appalachia and District 12 (Tina L. Hanlon) 6. The "Fine Reality of Hunger SatisFied": Food as Cultural Metaphor in Panem (Max Despain) II. Ethics, Aesthetics and Identity 7. Katniss Everdeen's Liminal Choices and the Foundations of Revolutionary Ethics (Guy Andre Risko) 8. Hungering for Righteousness: Music, Spirituality and Katniss Everdeen (Tammy L. Gant) 9. Revolutionary Art in the Age of Reality TV (Katheryn Wright) 10. (Im)Mutable Natures: Animal, Human and Hybrid Horror (Sharon D. King) 11. "Killer" Katniss and "Lover Boy" Peeta: Suzanne Collins's DeFiance of Gender-Genred Reading (Ellyn Lem and Holly Hassel) 12. Of Queer Necessity: Panem's Hunger Games as Gender Games (Jennifer Mitchell) III. Resistance, Surveillance and Simulacra 13. Costuming the Resistance: The Female Spectacle of Rebellion (Amy L. Montz) 14. "Perhaps I Am Watching You Now": Panem's Panopticons (Kelley Wezner) 15. Fueling the Spectacle: Audience as "Gamemaker" (Shannon R. Mortimore-Smith) 16. Simulacra, SacriFice and Survival in The Hunger Games, Battle Royale, and The Running Man (Helen Day) IV. Thematic Parallels and Literary Traditions 17. The PR Wars: The Hunger Games Trilogy and Shakespeare's Second Henriad (Catherine R. Eskin) 18. The Masks of Femininity: Perceptions of the Feminine in The Hunger Games and Podkayne of Mars (Rodney M. DeaVault) 19. The Child Soldier and the Self in Ender's Game and The Hunger Games (Sarah Outterson Murphy) 20. Apples to Oranges: The Heroines in Twilight and The Hunger Games (Amanda Firestone) 21. From the Boy Who Lived to the Girl Who Learned: Harry Potter and Katniss Everdeen (Mary F. Pharr) Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Fiction and Criticism: A Core Bibliography, with Emphasis on Young Adult Works (Leisa A. Clark) About the Contributors Index
Copyright Date
2012
Topic
Science Fiction & Fantasy, Children's & Young Adult Literature, Popular Culture, General
Lccn
2012-022815
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, Social Science
