I’ve been trying to isolate Kabuki as a final girl or a professional by analyzing her identity as a cyborg. Within the context of the comic book she fits Carol J. Clover’s mold of the final girl. “The final girl is the one who encounters the mutilated bodies of her friends and perceives the full [...]
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Kabuki final girl or a professional ?
Posted in comic books, scholarly articles, tagged carol j. clover, final girl, kabuki, professional on November 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Feminism’s Final Girl
Posted in scholarly articles, television, tagged buffy the vampire slayer, feminism, final girl on October 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The following are my notes for a lecture on Feminism’s Final Girl. Most of the notes are direct quotes from the article, “The Third Wave’s Final Girl: Buffy the Vampire Slayer” by Irene Karras, which was published by Third Space: A Journal of Feminist Theory and Culture, interspersed with my own personal notes. I did [...]
