Catherine Driscoll is Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. Her research focuses on youth and girl culture, popular culture, modernity, and rural cultural studies. She is also author of Girls, Modernist Cultural Studies, Teen Film, and The Australian Country Girl.Alexandra Heatwole is a researcher in media and gender studies, specialising in girl studies, youth culture, speculative fictions, and sexuality and reproductive technology. Since her doctorate, Renegotiating the Heroine: Postfeminism on the Speculative Screen (Sydney, 2015), she has published on princess culture and girl heroes.

• Introduction ‘The Hunger Games’Chapter 1 Choose Your Own Adventure: Survival, Adulthood and Other FantasiesChapter 2 Katniss Everdeen, Girl HeroChapter 3 The Train from District 12: Panem as DystopiaChapter 4 Team Katniss: In the Arena of RomanceChapter 5 ‘The Hunger Memes’: Film, Fans, and Speculation as Critique

Catherine Driscoll is Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. Her research focuses on youth and girl culture, popular culture, modernity, and rural cultural studies. She is also author of Girls, Modernist Cultural Studies, Teen Film, and The Australian Country Girl.Alexandra Heatwole is a researcher in media and gender studies, specialising in girl studies, youth culture, speculative fictions, and sexuality and reproductive technology. Since her doctorate, Renegotiating the Heroine: Postfeminism on the Speculative Screen (Sydney, 2015), she has published on princess culture and girl heroes.

• Introduction ‘The Hunger Games’Chapter 1 Choose Your Own Adventure: Survival, Adulthood and Other FantasiesChapter 2 Katniss Everdeen, Girl HeroChapter 3 The Train from District 12: Panem as DystopiaChapter 4 Team Katniss: In the Arena of RomanceChapter 5 ‘The Hunger Memes’: Film, Fans, and Speculation as Critique

Catherine Driscoll is Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. Her research focuses on youth and girl culture, popular culture, modernity, and rural cultural studies. She is also author of Girls, Modernist Cultural Studies, Teen Film, and The Australian Country Girl.Alexandra Heatwole is a researcher in media and gender studies, specialising in girl studies, youth culture, speculative fictions, and sexuality and reproductive technology. Since her doctorate, Renegotiating the Heroine: Postfeminism on the Speculative Screen (Sydney, 2015), she has published on princess culture and girl heroes.

• Introduction ‘The Hunger Games’Chapter 1 Choose Your Own Adventure: Survival, Adulthood and Other FantasiesChapter 2 Katniss Everdeen, Girl HeroChapter 3 The Train from District 12: Panem as DystopiaChapter 4 Team Katniss: In the Arena of RomanceChapter 5 ‘The Hunger Memes’: Film, Fans, and Speculation as Critique