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'''Carol J. Clover''' (born July 31, 1940) is an [[United States|American]] [[professor]] of [[film studies]], [[rhetoric]] [[language]] and [[Scandinavian mythology]] at the [[University of California, Berkeley]]. She has been widely published in her areas of expertise. Her 1992 book ''[[Men, Women, and Chainsaws|Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film]]'' achieved popularity beyond academia,<ref>{{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=December 18, 1992 |accessdate=November 16, 2006 |url=http://www.joebobbriggs.com/drivein/1992/menwomenandchainsaws.htm |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20061101025710/http://www.joebobbriggs.com/drivein/1992/menwomenandchainsaws.htm <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archivedate = November 1, 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=Mark Holcomb |title=Girl Afraid |publisher=Village Voice |date=December 1, 2003 |accessdate=November 17, 2006 |url=http://www.villagevoice.com/books/0349,holcomb,49130,10.html}}</ref> and she is credited with developing the "[[final girl]]" theory within the book, which changed both popular and academic conceptions of [[Gender in slasher films|gender in horror films]].
'''Carol J. Clover''' (born July 31, 1940) is an [[United States|American]] [[professor]] of [[film studies]], [[rhetoric]] [[language]] and [[Scandinavian mythology]] at the [[University of California, Berkeley]]. She has been widely published in her areas of expertise. Her 1992 book ''[[Men, Women, and Chainsaws|Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film]]'' achieved popularity beyond academia,<ref>{{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=December 18, 1992 |accessdate=November 16, 2006 |url=http://www.joebobbriggs.com/drivein/1992/menwomenandchainsaws.htm |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061101025710/http://www.joebobbriggs.com/drivein/1992/menwomenandchainsaws.htm |archivedate=November 1, 2006 |deadurl=yes |df=mdy }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Mark Holcomb |title=Girl Afraid |publisher=Village Voice |date=December 1, 2003 |accessdate=November 17, 2006 |url=http://www.villagevoice.com/books/0349,holcomb,49130,10.html |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061104212550/http://www.villagevoice.com/books/0349,holcomb,49130,10.html |archivedate=November 4, 2006 |df=mdy }}</ref> and she is credited with developing the "[[final girl]]" theory within the book, which changed both popular and academic conceptions of [[Gender in slasher films|gender in horror films]].


Clover is a featured expert in the film S&Man, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2006.<ref>http://www.e.bell.ca/filmfest/2006/films_schedules/films_description.asp?id=257</ref> Her son is academic and poet [[Joshua Clover]].
Clover is a featured expert in the film S&Man, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2006.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.e.bell.ca/filmfest/2006/films_schedules/films_description.asp?id%3D257 |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2006-10-30 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061013070456/http://www.e.bell.ca/filmfest/2006/films_schedules/films_description.asp?id=257 |archivedate=October 13, 2006 |df=mdy }}</ref> Her son is academic and poet [[Joshua Clover]].


==Biography==
==Biography==

Revision as of 00:13, 16 November 2016

Carol J. Clover
Born (1940-07-31) July 31, 1940 (age 84)
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
Academic work
DisciplineFilm and literature scholar
Notable ideasFinal girl

Carol J. Clover (born July 31, 1940) is an American professor of film studies, rhetoric language and Scandinavian mythology at the University of California, Berkeley. 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,[1][2] 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.[3] Her son is academic and poet Joshua Clover.

Biography

Clover attended the University of California at Berkeley for both her undergraduate and graduate studies. From 1971 to 1977, she was an assistant professor at Harvard University, and then became an assistant professor and eventually a full professor at UC Berkeley. In 1965, she was a Fulbright Fellow at Uppsala University in Sweden.

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

References

  1. ^ 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. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  2. ^ Mark Holcomb (December 1, 2003). "Girl Afraid". Village Voice. Archived from the original on November 4, 2006. Retrieved November 17, 2006. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  3. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on October 13, 2006. Retrieved 2006-10-30. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)


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