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The Hunger Games & Extraordinary Girl Romance Narratives
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The Hunger Games & Extraordinary Girl Romance Narratives

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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