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Popular Culture and Politics: The Hunger Games 3-Finger Salute in Thai Protests

June 4, 2014
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Popular Culture and Politics: The Hunger Games 3-Finger Salute in Thai Protests

Thai protesters' appropriation of the three-finger salute articulates the relationship between popular culture and politics and places the protests within a history of fan-based civic engagement.
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The Hunger Games and the Female-Led Franchise Part 2

December 27, 2013
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The Hunger Games and the Female-Led Franchise Part 2

While teaching an undergraduate film module this week, I asked my student cohort to come up with any female-led film franchises. We were discussing gender and I was trying to illustrate how inequality still persists in the twenty-first century both at the level of industry and aesthetics. Masculine film franchises were easy and the...
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The Hunger Games and the Female Driven Franchise (Part 1)

December 9, 2013
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The Hunger Games and the Female Driven Franchise (Part 1)

Female-led film franchises are few and far between, especially in the traditionally masculine genres of science fiction and fantasy. There are, of course, exceptions to this ‘rule’ which I shall discuss in a moment – but, firstly, I would like to point out that I am not implying that so-called ‘boy’s genres’ – science...
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Creating a Spark: Official and Fan-Produced Transmedia for The Hunger Games

May 11, 2012
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Creating a Spark: Official and Fan-Produced Transmedia for The Hunger Games

With the widespread use of Twitter and Tumblr, official and fan-produced transmedia increasingly share the same media spaces.
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