Search results for "The Hunger Games"
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The Dark Society
2020
Ulrich Beck, a German sociologist who does not need previous presentation, casts his diagnosis about risk society as a new emerging ethos where social class and hierarchies blurred before the figure of risk. Although he shed light on the post-industrial society of the 90s, today the society he studied seems to be pretty different. Hence, a new fresh insight should replace it. This article introduces readers to the conceptual foundations of Thana Capitalism, as it was critically debated in our book The Rise of Thana Capitalism and Tourism. Per the author's conception, the risk society sets the pace to a new facet of capitalism where the other's pain remains as the main commodity to exchange.…
Hope and equilibrium in the dystopian world of The Hunger Games
2021
This paper provides evidence of the fruitfulness of combining analytical categories from Cognitive Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis for the analysis of complex literary characterizations. It does so through a detailed study of the “tributes”, i.e. the randomly selected children who have to fight to death in a nationally televised show, in The Hunger Games. The study proves the effectiveness of such categories to provide an analytically accurate picture of the dystopian world depicted in the novel, which is revealed to include a paradoxical element of hope. The type of dehumanization that characterizes the dystopian society of Panem is portrayed through an internally consistent se…
Distopía, eutopía y crisis social en el cine mainstream (Los casos de Los juegos del hambre y Del revés)
2018
espanolEn el marco de un mundo globalizado, la aparente "desideologizacion" que acompana a los bienes culturales actuales, sirve a los propositos de reproduccion del sistema capitalista, entendido este dentro de su vertiente cultural actual como un sistema omnipresente y omniabarcante. En este sentido, los productos culturales del mainstream estadounidense, continuan constituyendo, aun a dia de hoy, uno de los principales pilares a traves de los cuales el sistema se representa a si mismo, proponiendo y defendiendo determinados modos de vida, en concreto, el American Way of Life. En el actual contexto, el mainstream cinematografico, a traves de productos como “Los Juegos del Hambre” (The Hun…