Clover’s book is geared to film scholars as it leverages a range of fellow film theorists, psychoanalytic concepts by Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan, and gender theory by Judith Butler among others. Clover’s 1992 book, Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film ( M,W,&CS ). These are but the tip of the butcher knife, both in fiction and the reviews, blogs, memes, and critiques online.īut for every one hundred people who drop the term “Final Girl,” maybe one has ever read the origin text, Carol J. Halloween Kills has returned to the big screen one of the Final Girl foundations, hearkening back to John Carpenter’s 1978 classic, Halloween. Grady Hendrix’s latest novel, The Final Girl Support Group, trades explicitly on the term. Stephen Graham Jones’s brilliant novel, My Heart is a Chainsaw, features Jade, a protagonist who’s obsessed with Final Girls in the films she watches and the local events where she lives.
It seems everywhere you look in horror fiction and fandom these days, the Final Girl is the buzz.
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