Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
This is the text on which the following chapter is based: "Sinister Power Play and the Final Girl: Katniss Everdeen in Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games Trilogy". Final Girls, Feminism and Popular Culture, Katarzyna Paszkiewicz and Stacey Rusnak (eds.). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. 155-172. It is here uploaded with permission, following the two-year embargo established in the contract.
Esta es mi propia traducción, incluyendo las citas originalmente en inglés, del capítulo «Sinister Power Play and the Final Girl: Katniss Everdeen in Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games Trilogy», Final Girls, Feminism and Popular Culture, Katarzyna Paszkiewicz & Stacey Rusnak (eds.). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. 155-172. Aparece aquí en acceso abierto, con permiso de la editorial.
Katniss Everdeen, protagonist of Suzanne Collins' popular young adult trilogy The Hunger Games (2008-10), might not immediately appear to be a Final Girl of the type Carol Clover described in her influential article "Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film" (1987). I believe, however, that Katniss is certainly a Final Girl, though it is not my aim to prove here that her characterization perfectly matches Clover's portrayal. Staiger's analysis of a large corpus of slasher films, intended to question the completeness of Clover's formula, shows that this is not a fruitful approach. I argue, rather, that even when the Final Girl blueprint only fits partially, as is the case with Katniss, we may gain new insights into specific female characters, their power and agency, which may allow us to revitalize current dominating appraisals.
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Final Girl; Katniss Everdeen (character); Suzanne Collins (novelist); The Hunger Games (trilogy); Villain; Female villain; Serial killer
Final Girls, Feminism and Popular Culture ;
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