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Of Bread, Blood and the Hunger Games: Critical Essays on the Suzanne Collins Trilogy

Mary F. Pharr & Leisa A. Clark

First published 2012
Series The Hunger Games nonfiction
Publisher McFarland & Company
Format eBook
Type Nonfiction
Price $15.99
ISBN 9781476600321

  • Assumed first edition.
  • Data from OCLC/WorldCat and from Amazon.com. and its Read Sample feature, as of 2024-02-18 (the Kindle has 2488 KB or 245 printed pages in length).

Year Reviewer Publication
2013 Carol Franko SFRA Review, #305 Summer 2013

Page Title Author(s) Type
|1 Preface (Of Bread, Blood and the Hunger Games) Leisa A. Clark Essay
|10 Hungering for Righteousness: Music, Spirituality and Katniss Everdeen Tammy L. Grant Essay
|11 Revolutionary Art in the Age of Reality TV Katheryn Wright Essay
|12 (Im)Mutable Natures: Animal, Human and Hybrid Horror Sharon D. King Essay
|13 "Killer" Katniss and "Lover Boy" Peeta: Suzanna Colins's Defiance of Gender-Genred Reading Ellyn Lem & Holly Hassel Essay
|14 Of Queer Necessity: Panem's Hunger Games As Gender Games Jennifer Mitchell Essay
|15 Costuming the Resistance: The Female Spectacle of Rebellion Amy L. Montz Essay
|16 "Perhaps I Am Watching You Now": Panem's Panopticons Kelley Wezner Essay
|17 Fueling the Spectacle: Audience As Gamemaker Shannon R. Martimore-Smith Essay
|18 Simulacra, Sacrifice and Survival in The Hunger Games, Battle Royale, and The Running Man Helen Day Essay
|19 The PR Wars: The Hunger Games Trilogy and Shakespeare's Second Henriad Catherine R. Eskin Essay
|2 Introduction (Of Bread, Blood and the Hunger Games) Leisa A. Clark & Mary F. Pharr Essay
|20 The Masks of Femininity: Perceptions of the Feminine in The Hunger Games and Podkayne of Mars Rodney M. DeaVaut Essay
|21 The Child Soldier and the Self in Ender's Game and The Hunger Games Sarah Outterson Murphy Essay
|23 Apples to Oranges: The Heroines in Twilight and The Hunger Games Amanda Firestone Essay
|24 From the Boy Who Lived to the Girl Who Learned: Harry Potter and Katniss Everdeen Mary F. Pharr Essay
|25 Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Fiction and Criticism: A Core Bibliography, with Emphasis on Young Adult Works Leisa A. Clark Essay
|26 About the Contributors (Of Bread, Blood and the Hunger Games) uncredited Essay
|27 Index (Of Bread, Blood and the Hunger Games) uncredited Essay
|3 Panem in America: Crisis Economics and a Call for Political Engagement Bill Clemente Essay
|4 Absolute Power Games Anthony Paulik Essay
|5 Communal Spectacle Reshaping History and Memory through Violence Gretchen Koenig Essay
|6 Reflections in a Plastic Mirror Valerie Estelle Frankel Essay
|7 Coal Dust and Ballads: Appalachia and District 12 Tina L. Hanlon Essay
|8 The "Fine Reality of Hunger Satisfied": Food As Cutural Metaphor in Panem Max Despain Essay
|9 Katniss Everdeen's Liminal Choices and the Foundations of Revolutionary Ethics Guy Andre Risko Essay

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Of Bread, Blood and the Hunger Games: Critical Essays on the Suzanne Collins Trilogy Cover 2012 McFarland & Company Trade Paperback Nonfiction x+245