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Sex och droger är inget för mig: The final girl från den japanska slasherfilmen
Linnaeus University, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Department of Film and Literature.
2023 (Swedish)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesisAlternative title
Sex and drugs are not for me : The final girl from the japanese slasher film (English)
Abstract [en]

The aim of this study is to assess to which extent the concept called the final girl can be applied to a character produced outside USA. To achieve this, I have used a Japanese film called Evil Dead Trap (Toshiharu Ikeda, 1988), where I have analyzed the character Nami and her relations to the conventions of the final girl. Some of the more common conventions are that the final girl do not engage in sex or use drugs such as cigarettes. The theoretical framework focuses on identifying and establishing the different conventions of the final girl by using two different researchers and their texts. The state of research was used to place the movie in a historical context. Because of this, the research used focused on Japanese horror cinema from the fifties to the nineties. When the framework was established, an analysis of the final girl was made. Throughout the analysis I saw that, apart from three exceptions, Nami followed the conventions of the final girl. The exceptions were that she did not survive the movie, she took drugs in the form of a cigarette and showed a lack of intellect when they arrived at the military base.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2023. , p. 36
Keywords [en]
Final girl, slasher, Evil Dead Trap, convention, Japanese horror.
Keywords [sv]
Final girl, slasher, Evil Dead Trap, konvention, japansk skräck
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Studies on Film
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URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-118761OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-118761DiVA, id: diva2:1731342
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Film Studies
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Available from: 2023-04-24 Created: 2023-01-26 Last updated: 2023-04-24Bibliographically approved

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