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Main Points of :Capital or the Capitol? The Hunger Games Fandom and Neoliberal Populism.

< I looked up the definition of neoliberal It means favoring policies that promote free-market capitalism, deregulation, and reduction in government spending. )

Imagined worlds are especially significant for young readers.

It might be their first exposure to texts that explore social organization.

Dystopian fiction warns readers about the possible outcome of the present world's policies.

The Hunger Games covers class division, metropolitan-periphery division, a sadistic televised reality competition and state surveillance.

The Capitol takes the wealth of the districts for itself.

The three-fingered salute was used in Thailand so the government banned the film.

There are few academic studies of the Hunger Games.

The fast-paced, first-person narrative does not encourage the reader to reflect.

There is an absence of professional medicine in the districts.

Most readers praise Katniss and Gale for being unselfish.

The Capitol is like a crueler version of the Emerald City.

Katniss is a strong woman character not focused on love.

District 12 has three racialized clases: the Seam (dark with olive skin), merchants (blond) and the occupying peacekeepers.

District 11 is a plantation society with mostly dark brown-skinned people.

The movies do not sustain the books racial lessons.

The setup for the reaping procedure is similar to Holocaust videos.

The Capitol is multi-cultural.

Most media critics seem Panem geography as a metaphor for working-class peoples struggle against the rich.

The Hunger Games is like Star Wars in that there is an uprising against an evil imperial government.

District 13 can be read as a utopian state where everyone has a place to stay, food, medicine, education and entertainment.

Both the rebels and the Capitol use propaganda films.

Katniss is used as a pawn by Coin.

Katniss rejects Gale for his violence and chooses Peeta.

The fact that Katniss married Peeta has upset a lot of people.

Some see that as a betrayal of a strong feminine character.

There's a series of 'interview questions.'

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