The Final Girl is female, but she has a gender ambiguous name. Her basic argument is that although slasher movies seem to delight in the sadistic torment of female victims, they are actually providing the audience a point of identification with the last woman standing, which Clover identified as the "Final Girl." The way we understand horror films changed forever with the publication of Carol Clover's 1992 book Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film.
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