James Lavelle
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James is a recent graduate from a prestigious liberal arts college with a degree in low financial yields. Slouching toward professionalism, caught in the existential funk requisite of a postgrad vain and naive enough to major in the humanities. Between leaving behind scrap pages of a novel that will never be written, he enjoys writing about books, film, and television. Twitter: @PrecedentEvil, email: jamesl@theyoungfolks.com.

How the Adapted Screenplay Saved the Hunger Games (Part II of II)

Last time we talked about some of the problems with The Hunger Games.Or rather, I discussed the problems as perceived by me using a framework of modern Young Adult fiction by trying to highlight tropes within the genre that have become…

How the Adapted Screenplay Saved The Hunger Games (Part I of II)

When I think about movies that are, I believe, better than the books they are adapted from, for the most part these movies are adaptations of Young Adult novels (also, The Lord of the Rings). I’m not entirely sure what to…

Mickey Markets Movies: Frozen and the Disney Princess Model

The Disney Princess Model If you sit down to watch Frozen and know nothing about it other than it is a Disney princess movie, you should already have a pretty good idea of what you are going to see. There is…