This book considers The Hunger Games as an intertextual field centred on this blockbuster film franchise but also encompassing the successful novels that preceded them and the merchandised imagery and the critical and fan discourse that surrounds them.

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

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.