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Niamh is carrying the torch without Emily for the foreseeable and of course that means a Ewan episode! We take a hard look at the Final Girl trope - that horror genre staple that sees the underestimated, underskilled, underappreciated female protagonist left standing alone, covered in blood and forever changed at the end of the story. As with all stories, there is a mythical origin - specifically the Mespotamian goddess Inanna, AKA Ishtar: goddess of love and war, patroness of sexworkers, scorned woman and feminine icon. We contrast Inanna with her modern counterparts: Ripley (Alien), Sidney (Scream), and Sarah (The Descent) - full spoilers for all those movies herein!

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S O U R C E S:

• Men,Women & Chainsaw -  Carol J Clover
• Good for Her: A Contemporary Analysis of the Final Girl Trope Through the Lens of Neoliberal Feminism Fujii, Kylie M.   San Diego State University ProQuest Dissertations & Theses,  2022. 29212908.
• What's the Story, Mother?: The Mourning of the Alien Stephen Scobie Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Mar., 1993), pp. 80-93 (14 pages)
• https://people.uncw.edu/deagona/myth/descent%20of%20inanna.pdf
• https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/amgg/listofdeities/inanaitar/
• https://www.worldhistory.org/Inanna/
• Alien (IMDB)
• Scream (IMDB)
• The Decent (IMDB)

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