Mary F. Pharr is a professor emeritus of English at Florida Southern College. She lives in Lakeland, Florida. Leisa A. Clark is a professor of arts and humanities, teaching diverse class subjects such as art history, media studies, and film history. She is the author of a variety of books, ranging from fictional comedic space opera to critical edited collections. She lives in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments viii
Preface (Leisa A. Clark)
Introduction (Mary F. Pharr and Leisa A. Clark)

I. History, Politics, Economics and Culture

[...] 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)

[...] Dust and Ballads: Appalachia and District 12 (Tina L. Hanlon)

[...] "Fine Reality of Hunger Satised": 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 Deance of Gender-Genred Reading (Ellyn Lem and Holly Hassel)

[...] 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, Sacrice and Survival in The Hunger Games, Battle Royale, and The Running Man (Helen Day)

IV. Thematic Parallels and Literary Traditions

[...] PR Wars: The Hunger Games Trilogy and Shakespeare's Second Henriad (Catherine R. Eskin)

[...] Masks of Femininity: Perceptions of the Feminine in The Hunger Games and Podkayne of Mars (Rodney M. DeaVault)

[...] 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)

[...] 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