The Girl on Fire:<i>The Hunger Games</i>, Feminist Geopolitics and the Contemporary Female Action Hero

Kirby, Philip

doi:10.1080/14650045.2014.984835

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“…In particular, disfigurement lends itself well to recent reformulations of popular geopolitics which have sought to stress the emotional and embodied dimensions of particular representations, under the rubric of 'popular geopolitics 2.0' (Dittmer and Gray 2010). This paper builds on work which aligns the insights of popular and feminist geopolitics to better trace how matters of emotion, embodiment and gender intersect with the geopolitical (Glynn and Cupples 2015;Kirby 2015;An, Liu and Zhu 2016).…”

Section: Popular Geopolitics Disability and Disfigurementmentioning

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Battle Scars: Wonder Woman, Aesthetic Geopolitics and Disfigurement in Hollywood Film

Kirby

2018

Geopolitics

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Section: Popular Geopolitics Disability and Disfigurementmentioning

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Battle Scars: Wonder Woman, Aesthetic Geopolitics and Disfigurement in Hollywood Film

Kirby

2018

Geopolitics

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“…This has been heeded by several studies, which have sought to better engage with how emotion, embodiment and gender intersect with the popular geopolitical (e.g. Glynn & Cupples, 2015;Kirby, 2015Kirby, , 2019An, Liu & Zhu, 2016). Taking its cue from these, this section considers how instrumental film score paints gender, using the example of Western, Cold War-themed film, principally the spy-thriller.…”

Section: Sounding Ii: Gender and The Cold Warmentioning

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Sound and fury? Film score and the geopolitics of instrumental music

Kirby¹

2019

Political Geography

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2016). Of less concern is music. Where music has been addressed, accounts generally consider lyrical rather than instrumental, treating music as another kind of meaning-rich text (Boulton, 2008;Street, 2013;Liu, An & Zhu, 2015). What is sometimes acknowledged in these analyses, but largely unexplored, is the conceptualisation of instrumental music as a mode of communication in itself -able to convey emotion, feeling, and certain understandings of space and place. In this article, an initial sounding of this area is made, focusing on instrumental, diegetic film score (music without lyrics composed to accompany film, which the audience can hear, but the film's characters cannot). 1 Drawing from wider work in human geography that has considered sound from non-representational perspectives, and film music studies, the discussion here broadens understandings of how geopolitical knowledges are produced and communicated.Film score is paradoxical. At one extreme, it is considered a method of supplementing the slower parts of a movie's narrative: "no one notices it, except that something would be missing if it were not there" (Scheurer, 1998, p. 172). At the other extreme, score is seen as central to filmmakingrequired for a great film to be great, and with the ability to save a film that might otherwise fail (Scheurer, 1998). An award for Best Score has been presented at the Oscars since 1935. More popular amongst many audiences than the classical canon, film score has been integrated into the repertoires of many international orchestras, helping to keep orchestras solvent (Kalinak, 2010). The world's leading film composers -such as John Williams, Hans Zimmer, Danny Elfmancommand salaries of up to $2 million per picture, making them competitive with leading actors and directors. In this article, the focus is on Western film score, but scores for non-Hollywood productions, including Bollywood, are becoming increasingly popular globally. Composers such as the Indian, A. R. Rahman, have blurred these divides, scoring productions around the world.Like language, music is built on units, grammars, forms of expression. For Timothy Scheurer, from the perspective of film music studies, these are "aural building blocks that, due to a host of

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“…Building on the studies of news media, films, or maps – both the products and their audiences – recent political geographic scholarship has analysed new films (e.g. Kirby, 2015), school textbooks (Ide, 2016) and computer games (Bos, 2018), as well as less-researched phenomena like rumour (Young et al, 2014) or MOOCs (Sparke, 2016). This work broadens out from the predominantly Hollywood- and United States-centred work that dominated even ten years ago to analyse public discourses in diverse geographical and historical settings (e.g.…”

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Political geography II: Institutions

Kuus

2018

Progress in Human Geography

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Modern power is bureaucratized power, institutionalized formally through governmental and non-governmental structures and informally through unwritten social conventions. This report reviews recent political geographic work on the institutional arrangements that enable and constrain all political practice. Institutions here refer to organizations as well as looser semi-institutionalized patterns in public and private life. The report will first examine the scholarship on formal organizations and it will then review the research on professional fields and popular culture. The conclusion highlights the transnationalization and neoliberalization of institutions as a theme that runs through much of contemporary political geography.

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The Girl on Fire:The Hunger Games, Feminist Geopolitics and the Contemporary Female Action Hero

Cited by 18 publications

References 17 publications

Battle Scars: Wonder Woman, Aesthetic Geopolitics and Disfigurement in Hollywood Film

Battle Scars: Wonder Woman, Aesthetic Geopolitics and Disfigurement in Hollywood Film

Sound and fury? Film score and the geopolitics of instrumental music

Political geography II: Institutions

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