Men, Women and Chainsaws by Carol J. Clover

Clover, feminist horror, final girl, Kyle Christensen, Laurie Strode, Nancy Thompson on Januby saren suture. Posted in Uncategorized and tagged Carol J. Also, while it’s true that Laurie does not kill her villain, give the kid a break - she manages to fight him off quite well and avoid being murdered which is more than most anyone else who encounters him can say. She’s younger in age and nature than Nancy, and Nancy isn’t exactly getting naked and high either.

While I agree that Nancy is indeed badass, I disagree with Christensen’s black-and-white judgment of Laurie Strode. Basically, he argues that Nancy is the true feminist Final Girl and Laurie is not. Proposing a Stronger Model of Feminism in SlasherĪ straightforward show-down between Laurie Strode and Nancy Thompson by Christensen using the iconic Final Girl archetype (from Men, Women and Chainsaws by Carol J. It was thought that we had exactly the same organs but in different places. I was a new Assistant Professor at that time, and everyone I knew wa. This one-sex system posits that males and females are largely the same and that the difference between the two lies in the fact that the male genitalia are on the outside while the female genitalia are on the inside. The Final Girl versus Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street: Clover published Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film with Princeton University Press.

Since 1992’s Men, Women and Chainsaws, the “Final Girl” has been the go-to topic when it comes to discussing feminism in the American slasher film. Clover in her seminal book Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film (1992).2.

Men, Women and Chainsaws by Carol J. Clover