Carol J. Clover - Her body, Himself
This article expresses how woman are portayed on TV and how it keeps changing over time. Before, women were seen as sexual objects and victims of murders. Now they are becoming the 'Final Girl' in films like Halloween and Scream. Women on TV are usually being looked at constantly by men. The article suggested that men would rather see a pretty woman on TV being murdered than an ugly woman being murdered. Women are being portrayed as 'sex objects' but recently there has been the 'alpha female' which is a female that takes on a more masculine role.
The final girl theory is a convention in thriller and horror films. It refers to the last woman alive to confront the killer and be able to tell the story. According to Clover the final girl in many typical horror fillm plots share a common characteristic, she is typically sexually unavailable or virginal and they sometimes have a unisex name, such as, Teddy, Billie, Georgie, Sidney.
The term was coined by Carol J. Clover in her 1992 book Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film
EXAMPLES OF FINAL GIRLS
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