Note: Italicized page numbers indicate a figure on the corresponding page.
action movie conventions 44–50, 45
affective map 87
Alice (Wonderland character) 37–39
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll) 37, 38–39
Alma Coin (character) 11, 27, 39, 40, 74, 77
Altman, Rick 86
Bakhtin, Maikhail 4
Banks, Elizabeth 12
Barthes, Roland 6
becoming-woman 47
Bella Cullen (Twilight character) 64–67
Belton, John 86
bildungsroman 16
Brave (film) 20
Brave New World (Huxley) 75
Buffy the Vampire Slayer franchise 8, 46, 48
Burton, Tim 39
Caesar Flickerman (character) 13
can-do girls 15
capitalist commodity culture 6, 13, 74–77, 81–84
Capitol Couture magazine 91
Carter, Lynda 45
celebrity subgenre 29
chick flicks 56
Cinderella (film) 20
cinematic gaze 3
Cinna (character) 12, 32, 33–34, 48, 59, 61
Claflin, Sam 10
Collins, Suzanne: as co-producer 90; fanbase of 88; introduction to 1–2, 4; merchandising debate 93; story inspiration 13–14, 25
colonialism 35
combat sequences 45
commodity fetishism 7
commodity society 7
Communist Manifesto 76
Considine, David 41
Coriolanus Snow (character) 4, 27, 39–40, 56
Cressida (character) 42
cult blockbuster 90
de Lauretis, Teresa 22
depersonalising media effects 31
‘Desire in Narrative’ (de Lauretis) 22
Disney, Walt 38
docusoap subgenre 29
‘double entanglement’ of postfeminist discourse 59
dystopian tenor of Hunger Games: capitalist commodity culture 6, 13, 74–77, 81–84; introduction to 68; politics of 74–80; surveillance images 69–74, 72, 73
Early, Frances 57
Edward Cullen (Twilight character) 64–67
Effie Trinket (character) 12
Ellen Ripley (Aliens character) 46–47
Engels, Friedrich 76
entertainment experience 79–80
Erikson, Erik 24
expansion of consciousness 21
fan activism 92
fan paraphernalia 89
fantasy genre of Hunger Games: attraction of 19–23; introduction to 19; reality games 28–34, 30, 32; tributes in 10, 23–28
fascist state 77
Faulkner, Joanne 25
feminised plot-space 22
figurative males 46
Finnick Odair (character) 10, 34, 55–56, 59
first-person narration 2–3, 41
Friedan, Betty 8
Frow, John 6
Frozen (film) 20
Frye, Northrop 63
Gale Hawthorne (character) 10, 53–54, 65
gamedoc subgenre 29
Gatens, Moira 61
Gay, Roxane 96
gender codes 16
gender identity 33
generic expectations of specialness 30
genre films 6
Gill, Rosalind 61
girl-centric maternalism of feminism 48
girl hero 1, 35–40, 40; see also Katniss Everdeen; speculative girl hero
‘girl power’ feminism 15
governmentality 14
Greasy Sae (character) 11
Grossman, Lev 29
haecceity 27
Halloween (film) 46
Hamilton, Linda 46
Harrelson, Woody 11
Harry Potter Alliance’s campaign 92
Harry Potter franchise 8, 23–24, 28, 88, 91
Haymitch Abernathy (character) 11, 12, 30–31, 34, 39, 48–49, 53
hegemonic gender codes 16
heroic romance formula 22
The Hero With a Thousand Faces (Campbell) 21
heteronormative romance 53
Hills, Elizabeth 46, 48, 88, 91
The History of Sexuality (Foucault) 14
Hoffman, Phillip Seymour 12
Horne, Jackie C. 66
The Hunger Games (film): climactic moment of 76; early dramatic sequences of 25–26; heroic trial in 23; introduction to 1; Katniss’s greatest weakness 31; Katniss’s songs 78; makeover scenes 32; mechanism of surveillance 70–71; Panem’s failure 11–12; Reaping in 26; tributes in 10, 24–25
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (film): heroic trial in 23; introduction to 1; Katniss’s songs 78; mechanism of surveillance 70–71, 72; references to sex 52, 54; Snow’s granddaughter 40; tributes in 10
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 (film): introduction to 1; Katniss-Peeta separation 43; literal undergrounds of 23; makeover scenes 32; mechanism of surveillance 73, 73; references to sex 52; Snow’s granddaughter 40
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 (film): introduction to 1; Katniss-Peeta separation 43; Katniss’s songs 79; literal undergrounds of 23; mechanism of surveillance 73, 73
Hunger Games Fandom Wiki 89
Hunger Games films: action movie conventions 44–50, 45; franchising girlhood 2–8, 5; introduction to 1–2; reality TV in 28–34, 30, 32, 83; speculative adolescence 8–13, 11; teen film conventions 6, 41–44; Twilight comparison 64–67; youth at risk 13–18
Hunger Games memes: fan culture 88–94, 89; introduction to 85; Lawrence, Jennifer 94–98; rebels with a cause 86–88
Hutcherson, Josh 4
iconic imagery 22
iconography 4
identity: debates over 36; gender identity 33; self-evaluation of 38; subcultural identities 41; in teen films 41–44; transformations of 43
ideological state apparatus (ISA) 75–76
independence 36
Jackson, Peter 9
Jameson, Frederic 63, 75, 76, 80, 86, 98
Jenkins, Patty 9
Johanna Mason (character) 10
Katniss Everdeen (character): antagonist to 12; charisma of authenticity 34; evaluation of choices 16–17; franchising girlhood 2–8, 5; greatest weakness 31; heroic quest of 20; identity transformations 43; introduction to 2, 35; Mockingjay transformation 23, 29, 50, 59, 73–74, 77; modern girlhood emergence 35–40, 40; reality TV transformation of 31–32, 32; sexualised love interests 10; speculative girl hero 8–9, 39, 46, 57–64, 62; survival of 28–29; teen films and 41–44; wedding dress design 33–34
kidult fiction 36
King, Stephen 17
Kravitz, Lenny 12
Lawrence, Jennifer 3, 4, 55, 94–98
Le Guin, Ursula K. 23
Lenny letter 95
Lewis, C.S. 29
lex insita principle 81
liminality 25
The Lord of the Rings (Tolkien) 24
Lotman, Jurij 22
Lucas, George 8
Magical Narratives 76
Magicians novels 29
Mags (character) 27
Maleficent (film) 20
Mallan, Kerry 27
Malone, Jena 10
manga 8
mass culture 7
maturity considerations 36
McRobbie, Angela 57, 58–59, 63, 66
Mead, Margaret 24
merchant class 81
military force 70
Miller, Jessica 58
Mockingjay transformation 23, 29, 50, 59, 73–74, 77
Moore, Julianne 11
moral compass of the story 3
morality encounters 43
More, Thomas 76
Motion Picture Association of America 44
Pearce, Sharyn 27
Peeta Mellark (character) 4, 27, 31, 33, 43, 53–56
philosophy of capture 47
physical danger sequences 45
Plutarch Heavensbee (character) 12–13
political geography 68
politics of Hunger Games 74–80
post-adolescence questions 43
Post Cinematic Affect (Shaviro) 86–87
postfeminism 15, 16, 57, 58–64
Prim Everdeen (character) 3, 25–26, 54
Propp, Vladimir 49
Raw Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl (Tiqqun) 7
ready-made emotional response 23
reality sitcoms subgenre 29
reality TV in Hunger Games 28–34, 30, 32, 83
Reaping in Hunger Games 26, 57
reflexive modernity 17
reproduction of labour 81
Reviving Ophelia (Pipher) 15–16
riot grrrls 15
risk society concept 17
rite of passage stories 24
romance genre 6
Roman gladiator games 13
romantic cycle 21
romantic sub-narrative 35
Roth, Veronica 8
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 36
Rowling, J.K. 8
Rue (character) 11, 27, 55, 59
Russell, David O. 94
Sailor Moon franchise 8
Sarah Connor (Terminator character) 46, 47, 48
science fiction/fantasy genre 6, 87; see also fantasy genre of Hunger Games
‘second wave’ feminism 16
The Secret Garden (Burnett) 37
self-definition 57
self-destructive ‘melancholia’ 16
self-imposed inhibition 66
self-representation 38
Seneca Crane (character) 12–13, 70–71
shared knowledge of fans 89
Shary, Timothy 86
Situationists 7
slogan for The Games 17
Snow’s granddaughter (character) 39–40
social anxiety 24
social resistance 87
Society of the Spectacle (Debord) 7
sovereign power 70
sparagmos, defined 21
spectacle in defining society 74–80
speculative adolescence 8–13, 11
speculative fiction 16, 20, 98
speculative girl hero 8–9, 39, 46, 57–64, 62
star-crossed lovers 55
state-media complex 25
subcultural identities 41
super-heroic action films 9
supreme ordeal 21
surveillance images 69–74, 72, 73
Sutherland, Donald 11
symbolic power 26
talent contests subgenre 29
teen film conventions 6, 41–44
teen romance plot in Hunger Games: introduction to 51; speculative girl hero 8–9, 39, 46, 57–64, 62; teen angst and bridal promise 51–56, 52
teen/youth film genre 6
television girl-centered stories 9
The Terminator (film) 46, 47, 48
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (film) 46
Thresh (character) 27
Through the Looking-Glass (Carroll) 37, 38
Todorov, Tzvetan 20
Transmedia Alice 39
tributes in Hunger Games 10, 23–28
Tucci, Stanley 13
Turner, Victor 24
tween fiction 36
van Gennep, Arnold 24
Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Wollstonecraft) 36
virginal girl heroes 53
vulnerability 36
X-Men franchise 95
young adult (YA) heroines 16, 85
YoungGirl 7
youth cinema 1
youth culture 42
youth-oriented conventions 85