Carol J. Clover

Carol J. Clover

Carol J. Clover, born in 1940, [http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/__data/assets/file/8624/EFLACC-June06.htm] is a professor of film, rhetoric, and Scandinavian at the University of California, Berkeley. [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: Gender in the Modern Horror Film" achieved popularity beyond academia, [cite web|author=Joe Bob Briggs|title=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"|publisher=San Francisco Chronicle column, Joe Bob Goes to the Drive-In|date=1992-12-18|accessdate=2006-11-16|url=http://www.joebobbriggs.com/drivein/1992/menwomenandchainsaws.htm] [cite web|author=Mark Holcomb|title=Girl Afraid|publisher=Village Voice|date=2003-12-01|accessdate=2006-11-17|url=http://www.villagevoice.com/books/0349,holcomb,49130,10.html] 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.

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).

Trivia

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]

ee also

*Film Criticism, "notable academic critics"
*Nóregs konungatal
*"Halloween

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