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The Final Girls (2015) as a Video Essay: A Metalinguistic Play with Genre and Gender Conventions
(IMS)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7607-399x
2019 (English)In: Gender and Contemporary Horror in Film / [ed] Samantha Holland; Steven Gerrard; Robert Shail, Bingley: Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2019, p. 219-235Chapter in book (Other academic)
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Abstract [en]

The Final Girls (Todd Strauss-Schulson, 2015) is the story of a group of teen-age friends that, during the screening of a Friday the 13th-like 1980s slasher horror, happen to be sucked into the film. Trapped in the gruesome narrative, they have to survive the deranged killer that haunts the premises of the campsite by applying their knowledge of the rules and cliches of the slasher genre. The film is of interest not only because it mixes horror and comedy and exaggerates the horror genre's conventions – as Scream and other neo-slashers already did. By employing the device of the screen rupture, the film constructs a complex network of self-reflexive moments and intertextual references. The metalinguistic play involves in particular the notoriously sexophobic and gender-led dynamics of the 1980s slashers – those more emancipated girls who have sex are killed, the most prudish girl is the one that eventually manages to defeat the monster, the “Final Girl.” In this sense, the film is almost like a video essay that reprises and illustrates one of the most seminal study of the slasher genre, Carol Clover's 1992 Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film. The chapter presents the defining elements of the slasher subgenre as theorised by Clover and then focusses on the analysis of the metalinguistic elements of The Final Girls vis-a-vis Clover's classic text.

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Bingley: Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2019. p. 219-235
Keywords [en]
gender representation; film analysis; slasher horror; cinema; film theory
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Gender Studies Studies on Film Cultural Studies
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Humanities, Film Studies; Social Sciences, Gender Studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-101793ISBN: 9781787698987 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-101793DiVA, id: diva2:1540446
Available from: 2021-03-29 Created: 2021-03-29 Last updated: 2022-01-26Bibliographically approved

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