The hunger games books are better than the films. And they describe the world a lot more than the films show. This is normal, of course. But in this case, the books describe the rock bottom material conditions of people in the hinterlands. The unbelievable wealth of the capital is as stark of contrast as possible. You can see it in the film, but it’s not spelled out. The hunger games world is what we have now, but more extreme. It’s resource extraction and brutal poverty where katniss is from, with basically 1800s technology. Within the walled city, it’s the future.
Idk, the way they put it forward is incredibly dunkable. Fiction is a good way to explore topics and people and dystopian science fiction is a fun way to explore inequalities and class. But the study isn’t a broad stoke study on the impact dystopian novels have on kids, it’s hyper focused on Hunger Games as if there’s something unique to it beyond it’s popularity. The thought of someone being “radicalized” by Hunger Games is funny to me, sue me
The ability of fiction to build empathy is a well-established thing.
Which is something seemingly not mentioned in the study. I’m not trying to nitpick because clearly it has limited funding and could only do so much to explore this, but even the study itself is passively implying Hunger Games is unique in some way
I get what you’re saying, but focusing on a specific series is probably more to do with trying to follow good practices in crafting a study. Just dystopian fiction in general is extremely broad. It makes sense to pick a specific series that was very popular so that your study parameters are tight, but you have a large pool of people who have read them.
Hunger Games is better than Harry Potter
80% of our lives are determined by material conditions, the rest is ideals
If the only way to get a socialist revolution is by doing the three finger bird symbol and whstling to each other and talking about which Peeta or Fennel we are and whether we would be from the coal zone or the shoe zone, I don’t think I can do it 😑
Gonna make Lin-Manuel Miranda sing songs from Les Misérables to get the libs to join in return for not sending him to the gulag.
Shit like this is what makes libs think consumption and entertainment are politics
