Sinners, Saints, and Angels on Fire: The Curiously Religious Soundtrack of The Hunger Games's Secular Dystopia
Two albums of original pop songs were produced to accompany The Hunger Games (2012) and Catching Fire's (2013) film adaptations. Over half of the contributing musicians employed religious vocabulary and motifs foreign to their source material. Possible influences discussed include religious par...
| Published in: | Journal of religion and popular culture |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Saskatchewan
[2016]
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Journal of religion and popular culture
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
The hunger games (Film)
/ The Hunger Games: Catching fire
/ Film music
/ Anti-Utopian
/ Religiosity
/ The Profane
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion CB Christian life; spirituality CD Christianity and Culture |
| Further subjects: | B
Postmodernism
B The Hunger Games B soundtrack B Popular Music B Apocalypse B Appalachia B Religion B Dystopia B Secularism B Adaptation |
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| Summary: | Two albums of original pop songs were produced to accompany The Hunger Games (2012) and Catching Fire's (2013) film adaptations. Over half of the contributing musicians employed religious vocabulary and motifs foreign to their source material. Possible influences discussed include religious paradigms associated with the Appalachian-inspired music of the first album, the apocalyptic impulse of contemporary dystopia, and the evolving role of religious imagery within postmodern pluralism. Ultimately, it is argued that despite the areligious content of The Hunger Games, the series' literary genre and cultural context facilitate the blending of the sacred and secular in ways unexpected but not incongruous. |
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| ISSN: | 1703-289X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion and popular culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3138/jrpc.28.1.3235 |