In the first installment of our Season 1 Halloween Special, we are looking at the franchise that introduced the canonical horror icon: the Final Girl! Laurie Strode is the founding mother of the Final Girl trope, as the term is coined by film critic Carol Clover in the 1992 book Men, Women, and Chainsaws. Your hosts are going to tell you all about what makes a girl a Final Girl and how Laurie Strode establishes and transforms this trope throughout the Halloween franchise. And be sure to tune in next week to see which Final Girl we're fawning over next!
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Sources:
Clover, Carol. Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film. 1992.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Strode
https://collider.com/who-was-the-first-final-girl
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077651/trivia/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_(1978_film)
