Get a load of this episode, you bitch! In the second installment of our Season 1 Halloween Special, we are talking about the final girl that faces the horrors of outer space: Ellen Ripley. In the Alien franchise, Ripley as a final girl doubles as one of the first women action heroes. We discuss the ways the final girl navigates the sci-fi sub-genre of this horror franchise, and the parallels we see between the scream queen and the female action hero.
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Sources:
Clover, Carol. Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film. 1993.
Zinoman, Jason. Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror. 2011.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliens_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_3
