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...

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Main Author: Swanson, Kj (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Saskatchewan [2016]
In: Journal of religion and popular culture
Year: 2016, Volume: 28, Issue: 1, Pages: 23-42
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B The hunger games (Film) / The Hunger Games: Catching fire / Film music / Anti-Utopian / Religiosity / The Profane
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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