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Hunger Games films --- History and criticism. --- Dystopian films
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The Hunger Games trilogy is a popular culture success. Embraced by adults as well as adolescents, Suzanne Collins’s bestselling books have inspired an equally popular film franchise. But what, if anything, can reading the Hunger Games tell us about what it means to be human in the world today? What complex social and political issues does the trilogy invite readers to explore? Does it merely entertain, or does it also instruct? Bringing together scholars in literacy education and the humanities, The Politics of Panem: Challenging Genres examines how the Hunger Games books and films, when approached from the standpoint of theory, can challenge readers and viewers intellectually. At the same time, by subjecting Collins’s trilogy to literary criticism, this collection of essays challenges its complexity as an example of dystopian literature for adolescents. How can applying philosophic frameworks such as those attributable to Socrates and Foucault to the Hunger Games trilogy deepen our appreciation for the issues it raises? What, if anything, can we learn from considering fan responses to the Hunger Games? How might adapting the trilogy for film complicate its ability to engage in sharp-edged social criticism? By exploring these and other questions, The Politics of Panem: Challenging Genres invites teachers, students, and fans of the Hunger Games to consider how Collins’s trilogy, as a representative of young adult dystopian fiction, functions as a complex narrative. In doing so, it highlights questions and issues that lend themselves to critical exploration in secondary and college classrooms.
Collins, Suzanne -- Criticism and interpretation. --- Collins, Suzanne. Hunger Games. --- Dystopias in literature. --- Education --- English --- Social Sciences --- Languages & Literatures --- American Literature --- Education - General --- Collins, Suzanne --- Collins, Suzanne. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Ḳolins, Suzan --- קולינס, סוזן --- Collins, Suzanne, --- Education. --- Education, general. --- Children --- Education, Primitive --- Education of children --- Human resource development --- Instruction --- Pedagogy --- Schooling --- Students --- Youth --- Civilization --- Learning and scholarship --- Mental discipline --- Schools --- Teaching --- Training
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"The Embodied Child: Readings in Children's Literature and Culture brings together essays that offer compelling analyses of children's bodies as they read and are read, as they interact with literature and other cultural artifacts, and as they are constructed in literature and popular culture. The chapters examine the ideology behind the cultural constructions of the child's body and the impact they have on society, and how the child's body becomes a carrier of cultural ideology within the cultural imagination. They also consider the portrayal of children's bodies in terms of the seeming dichotomies between healthy-vs-unhealthy bodies as well as able-bodied-vs-disabled, and examines flesh-and-blood bodies that engage with literary texts and other media. The contributors bring perspectives from anthropology, communication, education, literary criticism, cultural studies, philosophy, physical education, and religious studies. With wide and astute coverage of disparate literary and cultural texts, and lively scholarly discussions in the introductions to the collection and to each section, this book makes a long-needed contribution to discussions of the body and the child. "--Provided by publisher.
Children's literature --- Children in literature. --- Human body in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- Childhood in literature --- Children in poetry --- Adrielle Britten --- Amanda Hollander --- Anne of Green Gables --- anthropology --- art --- Blackfoot Place --- Black Children --- cheerleaders --- children's bodies --- Dance --- Darla Schumm --- disability --- discipline --- Erin Spring --- Eugenics --- embodiment --- Food --- female bodies --- Gender --- Glee --- Heather Braun --- Hunger Games --- health --- human nature --- Identity --- images --- invisibility --- Janet Wesselius --- Jennifer M. Miskec --- Julie Pfeiffer
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