“The mythic America,” the literary critic Leslie Fiedler - TopicsExpress



          

“The mythic America,” the literary critic Leslie Fiedler memorably wrote, “is boyhood.” One of the things that “The Hunger Games,” on the page and on the screen, suggests is that the myth is changing. Boys (and men) are still boys, of course, including in movies, but the very existence of Katniss — who fights her own battles, and kisses and leaves the boys, only sometimes to save them — suggests cultural consumers are ready for change, even if most cultural producers remain foolishly stuck in the past. Will you be watching The Hunger Games this weekend?
Posted on: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 23:00:36 +0000

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