The Hunger Games by Catherine Driscoll, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

The 2012 filmThe Hunger Gamesand 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 ofThe Hunger Gamesin 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. | The Hunger Games by Catherine Driscoll, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters