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or subduing him into submission. Carol J. Clover investigates from a feminist point of view, how the stereotyped viewers of slasher films are adolescent males, and while they are constantly placed into a position of killer and therefore an identification with the killer is created through subjective camerawork, it doesn't necessarily mean the film is misogynist. (Clover, C.J. 1992, Chapter 1) From films that Mark Whitehead touts as misogynist, Lucio Fulci's The New York Ripper (1982) and Terry Bourke's Lady, Stay Dead (1981), to more well-known films such as Halloween, Clover sites the Final Girl' as being the most important part of the film's overall politics. Clover argues that the female victims are dumb' but the heroines, or Final Girls' are headstrong, they are resourceful, unswayed by earthly pleasures and, rather than just heroines' they are heroic' in the proper sense'. (Clover, C.J. 1992, page 28) These girls confront the monster and have the common sense and courage to destroy it, exampled in Nancy Thompson's final battle and destruction of Freddy Krueger in A Nightmare On Elm Street, or Kim revealing and destroying the killer in Prom Night.

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