Today we're revisiting the first "Hunger Games" film (2012, dir. Gary Ross), in honor of the recent loss of the first President Snow, actor Donald Sutherland. With new context provided by "A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes," we discuss the perfect cruelty and systemic dehumanization of Suzanne Collin's fictional Panem. Using class as a tool of exploitation within Panem's district communities, among districts, and in the Capitol itself, we clarify the ways in which the games dehumanize EVERYONE in Panem society (in different fashions and to differing degrees). Strap in for a tour of 2000s American culture, Mycenean Greece, and Young Adult (YA) dystopia as we tackle the brutal world of the Hunger Games.

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