Fighting Like A Girl: Chun Li, Final Girls, and Gender Euphoria

Eric Shorey explores the psycho-politics of cross-gender identification in video games.

In Men, Women, & Chainsaws, a seminal text of film criticism by feminist scholar Carol Clover, the author lays out the unconscious politics of horror films. Clover’s project amounted to a psychoanalytically-informed dismantling of pre-1990’s attitudes towards horror cinema, in which it was assumed that the primary pleasure derived from these movies was …