Hunger Games: The Pillar Post

The One Stop location for Hunger Games posts at HogwartsProfessor is now up. You can find it by scrolling down the ‘Pillar Posts’ listing in the left margin of the site’s home page and clicking on ‘Authors Not J. K. Rowling (Hunger Games, Etc.)’ and then ‘Suzanne Collins — Hunger Games’ on that page. Or just head straight there via this link! (For more on the purpose of and how to use ‘Pillar Posts’ see “The ‘Why’ and ‘How To’ of HogwartsProfessor Pillar Posts.”)

The timing of this post is no coincidence, of course, but due to the news that Collins is writing a prequel to the best-selling trilogy. (See ‘Let the Hunger Games Begin — Again!’ for that story.) There are close to one hundred Hunger Games articles listed in this Pillar Post so settle in for a fun catch-up of the best discussion available anywhere on the books and film adaptations.

Here is a taste of the very best to encourage you to check out the whole listing:

• ‘Unlocking Mockingjay: The Spiritual Allegory’ On Iconological Reading and Katniss Everdeen as a Soul Seeking Perfection 
• ‘Unlocking Mockingjay: ‘The Literary Alchemy’On Literary Alchemy and Peeta as Postmodern Christ
• ‘Unlocking Mockingjay: Katniss’ Apotheosis’ On the Alchemical Arena and Katniss’ Perfection in the Inner Sanctuary
• Katniss’ Meadow Song the musical embedded text of the series with ‘Hanging Tree’
• The Hanging Tree, the story about the story inside the story;
• The Hunger Games Formula, Collins’ literary scaffolding
• Real or Not Real, the last-word-decisive theme of Mockingjay
• Gamesmakers Hijack Story: Capitol Wins Hunger Games Again
• The Larger Ring of The Hunger Games Trilogy: The Meadow
• Louise Freeman’s three part post on PTSD and The Hunger Games: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
• MuggleNet Academia podcast with Lana Whited, editor of Critical Insights: The Hunger Games
• On the Use of Hunger Games Imagery in Thailand Democracy Protests: Art Depicts Life Imitates Art
• On the Tragi-Comedy of a Hunger Games Theme Park in Totalitarian China
• Elizabeth Baird-Hardy on Fashion Shows with Hunger Games themes (see also the Miss Universe Pageant!)
• A Response to a Critic Claiming ‘Hunger Games is Flawed to its Core’
• Unintended Consequences: Hunger Games Hurts Television?

Enjoy!