Answer the following question: Drawing on Freud and Marcuse, watch and analyze the film (or read the book) The Hunger Games (stick to the first movie or book). How might concepts like repression (basic and surplus), Eros, the Nirvana principle, the death drive, sexuality, aggression, sublimation, etc., help us to understand the film? How do they explain the phenomenon of domination in the world shown in the film? Does the film show possibilities of liberation/emancipation and a non-repressive society? What problems might the film suggest for Marcuse’s theory?

Answer the following question: Drawing on Freud and Marcuse, watch and analyze the film (or read the book) The Hunger Games (stick to the first movie or book). How might concepts like repression (basic and surplus), Eros, the Nirvana principle, the death drive, sexuality, aggression, sublimation, etc., help us to understand the film? How do they explain the phenomenon of domination in the world shown in the film? Does the film show possibilities of liberation/emancipation and a non-repressive society? What problems might the film suggest for Marcuse’s theory?

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if for any reason the readings will not upload below are a list of them that you should be able to find online:

-Sigmund Freud, ‘The Ego and the Id,’ The Freud Reader, p. 629-658.
-Sigmund Freud, Civilization and its Discontents, Sections I-II
-Sigmund Freud, Civilization and its Discontents, Section III to end.
-Wilhelm Reich, ‘Ideology as a Material Force,’ The Mass Psychology of Fascism, p. 3-33.
-Theodor Adorno, ‘Freudian Theory and the Pattern of Fascist Propaganda,’ The Essential Frankfurt School Reader, p. 118-137.
Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, ‘Mass Society’ and ‘Postscript,’ Dialectic of Enlightenment, p. 196-197.
-Marcuse, Eros and Civilization, Part I (including ‘Political Preface 1966’), p. xi-126.
-Marcuse, Eros and Civilization, Part II, p. 129-237.