1st Edition
The Hunger Games Spectacle, Risk and the Girl Action Hero
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
Biography
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.
