The Hunger Games & Extraordinary Girl Romance Narratives

Shelf Love: Romantic Love Stories in Pop Culture

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The Hunger Games & Extraordinary Girl Romance Narratives

Shelf Love

Mar 01, 2022

The Hunger Games may have featured a prominent love triangle, but are those the relationships teen girl audiences care most about? Dr. Tina Benigno shares her research about how the teen romance narrative for the extra-ordinary girl in some ways reinforces neoliberal feminist or popular feminist messages around empowerment discourses, on the heels of postfeminism.

Discussed: The Hunger Games, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

Guest: Dr. Tina Benigno

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Shelf Love: Romantic Love Stories in Pop Culture

Shelf Love explores fictional stories of romantic love across media, time, and cultures. For the curious and open-minded who joyfully question as they consume pop culture. What's love got to do with it? Quite a bit!

From the page to the stage, on the screen or in the wrestling ring: Shelf Love invites experts to share their knowledge and love for diverse genres and how they help us explore romantic love, including romance novels, comic books, soap operas, romantic comedies, video games, oral stories, advertisements, and more, and introduces theory alongside applications and accessible explanations.

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