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Friday 23 November 2012

Final Girl Concept


Final Girl

The final girl is a thriller and horror film (particularly slasher) trope that specifically refers to the last woman or girl alive to confront the killer, ostensibly the one left to tell the story. The term was coined by Carol J. Clover in her book Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film. Clover suggests that in these films, the viewer begins by sharing the perspective of the killer, but experiences a shift in identification to the final girl partway through the film.

The final girl has been observed in dozens of films, including Halloween, Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Hellraiser, Alien and Scream.

 According to Clover, the final girl is typically sexually unavailable or virginal, avoiding the vices of the victims (sex, narcotic usage, etc.). She sometimes has a unisex name (e.g., Teddy, Billie, Georgie, Sidney).


Halloween (Wes Craven, 1978) Laurie Strode defines the final girl archetype in Haloween, specific detail is that she carrying books and later in the sequence she quotes 'ive forgotten my biology book' and the girls that she is with; the scream queens, laugh at her. She also wear unglamorous clothing - long cardigan and thick white tights and the final girl will be convetionally a brunette.    The final girl and the scream queens are binary opposites this is signified by the scream queens smoking and wearing much brighter clothers to stand out against the final girls dull colours. Scream (Wes Craven, 1996)   Sydney Prescott, the final girl she is signified to be the final girl through denoting her nightdress as long, old fashoined and childish. We also first see her doing her homework and she has the conventional brunette hair. The mise on scene is her bedroom as neat and tidy and not to the taste of a stereotyped teenage girl.   We get a false scare The boy refers to watching the excorsism previously and it reminding him of her. Final girl is a virgin 'i wouldnt dream of breaking your underware rule' Billy Looms

Here are some useful resources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_girl
http://harpymarx.wordpress.com/2008/11/02/the-final-girl-misogyny-and-the-slasher-film/
http://lewismediamassacre.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/final-girl-theory.html

1 comment:

  1. Hi curtis. thought i would just let you know i fed your fish.

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