Carol J. Clover is an American

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 professor

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 of film studies

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, rhetoric

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 and Scandinavian mythology. http://filmstudies.berkeley.edu/faculty_bios/clover.html She has been widely published in her areas of expertise. Her 1992 book Men, Women, and Chainsaws

Men, Women, and Chainsaws

Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film is a 1992 book by American academic Carol J. Clover. In it she investigates the appeal of horror cinema, in particular the slasher, occult, and rape-revenge genres, from a feminist perspective...

: Gender in the Modern Horror Film achieved popularity beyond academia, and she is credited with developing the "final girl

Final girl

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" theory, within the book, which changed both popular and academic conceptions of gender in horror films.

Clover is a featured expert in the film S&Man, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2006. http://www.e.bell.ca/filmfest/2006/films_schedules/films_description.asp?id=257 Her son is academic and poet Joshua Clover

Joshua Clover

Joshua Clover is a poet, critic, journalist and author. He has appeared in three editions of Best American Poetry, is a two-time winner of the Pushcart Prize, and recipient of an individual grant from the NEA; his first book of poetry, Madonna anno domini, received the Walt Whitman Award from the...

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Works

• Old Norse Icelandic Literature: a critical guide, University of Toronto Press, in association with the Medieval Academy of America, reprinted 2005
• Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film, Princeton University Press, 1992 and the British Film Institute, 2004
• The Medieval Saga, Cornell University Press, 1982

Articles

• "God Bless Juries!" Reconfiguring American Film Genres History and Theory, ed. Nick Browne (University of California Press, 1998): 255-77.

• "Law and the Order of Popular Culture," Law in the Domains of Culture, ed. Austin Sarat and Thomas R. Kearns (University of Michigan Press, 1998): 97- 119.

• "Judging Audiences: The Trial Movie." Film Studies, ed. Christine Gledhill and Linda Williams. (London: Arnold, 1998).

• "Dancin’ in the Rain." Critical Inquiry, 21 (1995).

• "Regardless of Sex: Men, Women, and Power in Early Northern Europe." Speculum: Journal of the Medieval Academy of Amnerica, 68 (1993). Rpt. in Studying Medieval Women: Sex, Gender, Feminism. Medieval Academy of America, 1993. Rpt. in Representations, 44 (1993).

• "The Politics of Scarcity: On the Sex Ratio in Early Scandinavia." Scandinavian Studies, 60 (1991). Rpt. in New Readings on Women in Old English Literature . Ed. Helen Damico and Alexandra Hennessey Olsen. Indiana Univ. Press).

• "Hildigunnr's Lament: Women in Bloodfeud." In Structure and Meaning. Ed. Gerd Wolfgang Weber, et al. Odense Univ. Press, 1987.

• "The Long Prose Form." Arkiv för nordisk filologi, 101 (1986).

• "The Germanic Context of the Unferth Episode," Speculum, 55 (1980).

See also

• Film Criticism
  Film criticism
  Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films, individually and collectively. In general, this can be divided into journalistic criticism that appears regularly in newspapers, and other popular, mass-media outlets and academic criticism by film scholars that is informed by film theory and...
  
  , "notable academic critics"
• Nóregs konungatal
  Nóregs konungatal
  Nóregs konungatal is an Icelandic skaldic poem. Composed around 1190 the poem is preserved in the 14th century Flateyjarbók manuscript. It is based on the lost historical work of Sæmundr fróði and is the best extant testimony on the scope of Sæmundr's work...
  
  
• Halloween
  Halloween (1978 film)
  Halloween is a 1978 American independent horror film directed, produced, and scored by John Carpenter, co-written with Debra Hill, and starring Donald Pleasence and Jamie Lee Curtis in her film debut and the first installment in the Halloween franchise. The film is set in the fictional midwestern...
  
  

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