Tag: Final Girl

• Bluebeard & the Final Girl: Feminist Retellings of Perrault’s Classic

  

  Sonya Vatomsky is here to examine the myth of Bluebeard, Perrault’s text as a canonical work, is in dire need of retelling. Culturally, Bluebeard has found itself linked more to temptation/knowledge narratives like the Garden of Eden and Pandora’s Box than to narratives of heroic escape from monstrous kings and ogres. This in itself is…

  Death and the Maiden

  09/02/2017

  Guest Post

  Bluebeard, Bride, Charles Perrault, Culture, Deadmaidens, Fairytales, Female Curiosity, Feminism, Final Girl, Folklore, Gender, Gender Roles, Genre, Marriage, Murder, Narrative, Perrault, Power, Retelling, Story, Women

• The Final Girl

  

  The last girl standing has been debated by horror fans and academics alike. We can track her evolution through the main stream of horror but her story existed long before the 1970s. For every final girl we find a fallen woman. Looking back at Victorian fiction we find that sex equaled death long before masked…

  Death and the Maiden

  23/03/2015

  Lucy Coleman Talbot

  Cinema, Deadmaidens, Death, Fallen Women, Fiction, Film, Final Girl, Genre, Gothic, Horror, Imagery, Innocence, Literature, Motherhood, Narrative, Revival, Sex, Slasher Film, Symbolism, Violence