FUN NEWS: After Christmas I'm delivering ten weeks of teaching on fantasy film and it's cultural and political significance. DOWNSIDE: I have to write ten weeks of lectures
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(Managed to write a reasonable course outline that goes from The Wizard of Oz to The Hunger Games so this is all starting to come together)
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Hunger Games ends the way it does because socialism has been erased from the ideological landscape in America. People literally can't imagine ending the exploitation of the miners by the capitalists in the city, only a change in leadership.
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Also, that's why in American Sci-Fi, the heroes are always called the "rebellion", and never the "revolution". They don't even attempt to change the way society is organized, because people have forgotten that it is possible.
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Look, stop stealing my last lecture outline.
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