Final Girl (Paperback, New)

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.

General

Imprint:	Soft Skull Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2003
First published:	September 2003
Authors:	Daphne Gottlieb
Dimensions:	209 x 164 x 9mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	120
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-887128-97-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
LSN:	1-887128-97-2
Barcode:	9781887128971

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