CAROL CLOVER
Carol Clover is an American professor of film studies and rhetoric language. 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, and she is credited with developing the "final girl" theory, within the book, which changed both popular conceptions of gender in horror films. The final girl theory states that there's a girl who tends to be sexually unavailable and or virginal. She also avoids the activities of the other characters and also normally has a unisex name i.e. Laurie, Sydney, Teddy or Billie. The final girl stays out of the way of the other characters and the things they do and therefore is normally the one to survive. She fights off or kills the antagonist and becomes the only surviving character. However this doesn't always happen, sometimes the final girl doesn't survive, for example in Final Destination. In this the final girl believes she has survived all of the deaths of her friends but then death catches up with her.