In Praise of The "Final Girl" Trope
The “Final Girl” is a trope in horror films – the term was coined by academic, Carol Jeanne Clover in her 1992 book, Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film. A brilliant examination of the slasher boom across the mid-70s and 1980s. The “Final Girl” trope is something I’ve been aware of for a while, I feel like you can’t really be a h…
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