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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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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University of Saskatchewan
[2016]
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Journal of religion and popular culture
Année: 2016, Volume: 28, Numéro: 1, Pages: 23-42 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
The hunger games (Film)
/ The Hunger Games: Catching fire
/ Musique de film
/ Anti-utopie
/ Religiosité
/ Le profane
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociologie des religions AG Vie religieuse CB Spiritualité chrétienne CD Christianisme et culture |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | 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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| Résumé: | 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 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion and popular culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3138/jrpc.28.1.3235 |