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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"the Hunger Games"”.
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Katniss and the Monomyth: Constructing Gender Identity in the Hunger Games
Joseph Campbell's theory of the heroic cycle as having three phases is comprehensive. The only aspect he neglects is the difference between the traditional hero and the female hero. While critics such as Pearson and Pope have examined the female hero, they seem to apply this term too broadly thus …
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Gendered archetypes and political violence: A critical approach to character representations in The Hunger Games film series
The Hunger Games film series impacted audiences globally and was aimed at adolescents as the primary audience. I looked at this film series as an important site for cultural production and examined representations of women who engaged in political power and political violence, along with …
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A Comedy for the Rich, a Tragedy for the Poor: Political Satire in Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games
In Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games (2008), the fictional future state of Panem has, for at least three quarters of a century, used the annual Hunger Games as a control mechanism to maintain the uneven power balance between the rich and the poor. The country’s history, for which Collins draws on …
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What Happens When You Let the Hunger Games Loose? An Evaluation of Temptation Bundling as a Behavior Change for Good Strategy in the StepUp Program
Temptation bundling, an intervention involving the coupling of instantly gratifying activities with activities that provide long-term benefits but require some exertion of willpower, is a novel behavior change strategy. To date, despite the short and long-term benefits of such an approach, only one …
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Assessing Industry Ideologies: Representations of Gender, Sexuality, and Sexual Violence in the Book Versions and Film Adaptations of The Hunger Games Trilogy, The Divergent Trilogy, and The Vampire Academy Series
… I use social constructionist feminist and queer theory and narrative analysis to identify messages about gender, sexuality, and sexual violence in both the book versions and film adaptations of The Hunger Games trilogy, the Divergent trilogy, and the Vampire Academy series. These three series are …
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THE UNRAVELING OF A WORLD: DEGENERATION IN URSULA K. LE GUIN’S EARTHSEA CYCLE
In the first Earthsea trilogy, Ursula K. Le Guin exposes the process of degeneration, humanity’s connection to it, and how restoration counteracts the devastation of degeneration. Throughout the trilogy, degeneration comes in different forms. Each novel focuses primarily on personal and collective …
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Lucille excerpts
The thesis titled “Lucille Excerpts” by Graicen O’Neal Hixson contains two parts. The first is a ten-page craft paper analyzing worldbuilding within three novels: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, and Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer. The craft paper uses the book …
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A Journey Through Costumes
<p>Robert Edmund Jones says in 'The Dramatic Imagination, 'A stage costume is not just for a character in a scene in a play, but for that character, in that scene, in that play.' Finding out who that character is becomes a journey through the pages of the script, dissecting the environment, what …
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This Book Will Destroy You: A Critical Comparative Analysis of YA Heroines
Despite the progress the Young Adult literary genre has made to diversify their characters and stories, the representation of a female protagonist has remained formulaic and predictable. YA commonly centers heroines who embody characteristics associated with female likability, resulting in the loss …
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Dystopian Cinderellas: "I Follow Him into the Dark"
… fiction as a template for mitigating problems in their own lives based on the ways that fictional characters handle conflict. Dystopic narratives extrapolate on the potential sociopolitical consequences of contemporary social issues that adolescents face. In recent years, authors of young adult …
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Distracted spectatorship, the cinematic experience and franchise films
This thesis draws on a reflexive account of embodied female spectatorship in order to re-frame dominant accounts of the cinematic experience. In particular the project shows how distraction, defined as a series of puncta which expand the spectator’s cinematic experience, is integral to embodied …
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Anadem An Exploration of Queer Representation and Dress in Young Adult (YA) Dystopia
… into a creative and critical focus element, this thesis explores Young Adult (YA) Dystopia’s problematic preference for portraying its ruling classes as queer coded and over-indulgent. Within the creative element I explore how and why a fictional dystopian world order might result in its ruling …
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Pedagogy and profit: Multiethnic literature, gender and young adult publishing
<p>This project argues that the adult/young adult division has the effect of maintaining social difference—especially along the lines of race and gender—while simultaneously ignoring the process of maintaining social hierarchies that occurs during the publication, reviewing and educational …