Contents

List of figures

Series editors’ introduction

Acknowledgements

Introduction: ‘The Hunger Games’

1 Choose your own adventure: survival, adulthood, and other fantasies

2 Katniss Everdeen, girl hero

3 Team Katniss: in the arena of romance

4 The train from District 12: Panem as dystopia

5 ‘The Hunger Memes’: film, fans, and speculation as critique

Bibliography

Index