Beyond Gender Tropes: The Final Girl & the Madman in 1980s Camp Slashers

In this video, Laura Ivins uses some of the ideas found in Carol Clover's seminal book Men, Women, & Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film to explore the archetypes of "the Final Girl" and "the Madman" in a slew of camp slasher flicks from the '80s. Visit IU Cinema's blog, Establishing Shot, for the accompanying post: blogs.iu.edu/establishingshot...

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Yes the movies work better this way with a lone girl who finally finds the courage and strength at the end of her ordeal to kill the maniac slasher and escape being the sole survivor of the massacre. She is also in many cases the only virgin among the group that was a trope right from the start of these slasher movies in the 70s and 80s.