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Final Girl (Paperback, New)
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Final Girl (Paperback, New)
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This brilliant dissection of American popular culture--in the form
of a poetry collection--centers around the "Final Girl," the last
girl left alive in the slasher movie "Final Girl traces the history
of the femme fatale in a sequence of poems and stories that display
the verve and wit readers have come to expect from Gottlieb. In
"Final Girl, Gottlieb is the survivor, the one who remains to tell
the story: what was done to others, what was done to her, what
might yet be done to her. Sexy and tart, dark and comic, low-down
and high-hearted poems such as "Slash," "Vamp," "Bride of
Reanimator," and "The Babysitter," Gottlieb identifies and
articulates the desires, fears, traumas--both personal and
social--out of which pop culture is made. And then she feeds pop
culture back to itself. Though the slasher flick is central,
Gottlieb finds resonances in sources as disparate as the early
American captivity narrative, queer and feminist film theory, and
her own mother's death from cancer. Through such iconic figures as
Marilyn Monroe and Patty Hearst, Gottlieb delineates the ways in
which we're betrayed by our cultural fantasies about abduction,
gender, literature, pleasure, and transgression--and, in so doing,
synthesizes the death and life of the Western female.
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