Carol J. Clover

Carol J. Clover (born July 31, 1940^[1]) is an American professor of film studies, rhetoric language and Scandinavian mythology.^[2] She has been widely published in her areas of expertise. Her 1992 book Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film achieved popularity beyond academia,^{[3] [4]} and she is credited with developing the "final girl" 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.^[5] Her son is academic and poet Joshua Clover.

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!" Refiguring 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).
• "Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film," Representations, 20 (1987).

See also

• Film criticism
  • List of film critics
• Nóregs konungatal
• Halloween

References

1. http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/__data/assets/file/8624/EFLACC-June06.htm
2. http://filmstudies.berkeley.edu/faculty_bios/clover.html
3. Joe Bob Briggs (December 18, 1992). "Berkeley professor Carol Clover, author of "Men, Women, and Chain Saws," may be the first person with a PhD ever to watch 200 slasher flicks BY CHOICE"". San Francisco Chronicle column, Joe Bob Goes to the Drive-In. Archived from the original on November 1, 2006. Retrieved November 16, 2006.
4. Mark Holcomb (December 1, 2003). "Girl Afraid". Village Voice. Retrieved November 17, 2006.
5. http://www.e.bell.ca/filmfest/2006/films_schedules/films_description.asp?id=257