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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| History, Politics, Economics and Culture | |
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| Panem in America: Crisis Economics and a Call for Political Engagement | |
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| Absolute Power Games | |
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| Communal Spectacle: Reshaping History and Memory through Violence | |
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| Reflection in a Plastic Mirror | |
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| Coal Dust and Ballads: Appalachia and District 12 | |
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| The "Fine Reality of Hunger Satisfied": Food as Cultural Metaphor in Panem | |
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| Ethics, Aesthetics and Identity | |
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| Katniss Everdeens Liminal Choices and the Foundations of Revolutionary Ethics | |
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| Hungering for Righteousness: Music, Spirituality and Katniss Everdeen | |
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| Revolutionary Art in the Age of Reality TV | |
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| (Im)Mutable Natures: Animal, Human and Hybrid Horror | |
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| "Killer" Katniss and "Lover Boy" Peeta: Suzanne Collins's Defiance of Gender-Genred Reading | |
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| Of Queer Necessity: Panem's Hunger Games as Gender Games | |
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| Resistance, Surveillance and Simulacra | |
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| Costuming the Resistance: The Female Spectacle of Rebellion | |
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| "Perhaps I Am Watching You Now": Panem's Panopticons | |
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| Fueling the Spectacle: Audience as "Gamemaker" | |
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| Simulacra, Sacrifice and Survival in The Hunger Games, Battle Roy ale, and The Running Man | |
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| Thematic Parallels and Literary Traditions | |
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| The PR Wars: The Hunger Games Trilogy and Shakespeare's Second Henriad | |
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| The Masks of Femininity: Perceptions of the Feminine in The Hunger Games and Podkayne of Mars | |
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| The Child Soldier and the Self in Ender's Game and The Hunger Games | |
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| Apples to Oranges: The Heroines in Twilight and The Hunger Games | |
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| From the Boy Who Lived to the Girl Who Learned: Harry Potter and Katniss Everdeen | |
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| Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Fiction and Criticism: A Core Bibliography, with Emphasis on Young Adult Works | |
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| About the Contributors | |
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| Index | |