The Final Girl Support Group (2021) | Episode #59

In this episode, hosts Katherine Troyer and Anthony Tresca discuss the 2021 novel The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix.

Episode Highlights: We talk about how Hendrix complicates (in all the best ways) the concept of the final girl as the novel explores what it means to experience and survive trauma. Examining not only the book's narrative but also key elements of form (such as the ephemera between chapters), we ask--and seek to answer--the question: What does it mean for a final girl to be a final woman? And finally we discuss what we see as problematic tension between the novel's resolution of the final girl narrative and its larger disaffirmative themes. 

A Dose of Scholarship: Of course we had to turn to none other than Carol J. Clover for her formative discussion of the final girl in her 1992 work Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film.

This podcast episode first aired on December 6, 2021

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