Part I: Theoretical Approaches;
1. The Narratives of Survival: Final Girls in Videogames;
2. Fighting Fate: Representations of a ‘New Order’ in Beautiful Creatures;
3. The Shadow Self and the New Girl: Breaking Down the Old Worlds in Ursula Le Guin’s The Tombs of Atuan and N.K. Jemisin’s The Stone Sky;
4. ‘She would never fall, because her friend was flying with her’: Gothic Hybridity, Queer Girls and Exceptional States in Helen Oyeyemi’s The Icarus Girl (2005) and M. R. Carey’s The Girl with all the Gifts (2014);
5. Cheerleaders, Orphans, School Girls: The Persistent Sounding Riot(Grrrl) in the (Televisual) Apocalypse; Part II: Cross-Cultural Heroes;
6. Tranquilas: Monstrous Resistance and Feminist Storytelling;
7. Sister-matic Cannibalism in the Dying Breed: Heterotopic Representations of Australia’s Lingering Colonial Connectivity;
8. Seeking Resistance in Tropes: a Reading of the Final Girl Trope’s Used in NH10 and Stree and its Socio-Cultural Significance;
9. Gothic Agent of Revolt: The Rebel Female Hero in Pan’s Labyrinth;
10. From Vancouver Island to the City of Troy: Prophecy, Heroism, and Indigenous Classical Reception in Catherine Knutsson’s Shadows Cast by Stars; Part III: Resistance, Revenge, Reimagining;
11. Coralie Fargeat’s Revenge (2017) and the Rape-Revenge Action Hero;
12. ‘What about you, Maxine? What’s your American Dream?’: X and Pearl Radically Refit the Final Girl with an Axe and Hack Apart the American Pastoral;
13. After The Credits Roll: Jade Daniels, Trauma and the Postmodern Final Girl;
14. Killer Girls: Red Riding Hood, Girlhood and the Final Girl;
15. The Witcher and Ciri of Cintra as the Heroic Final Girl; Part IV: Into the Future;
16. Persephone Distorted: From Teen Witch to Queen of Hell - The Evolution of Sabrina;
17. ‘The Witch Forever Lives’: Redefining the Path for Empowered Final Girls in the Trilogy Fear Street;
18. First Girl, Last Jedi, Final Girl: Rey, Resistance, and the Future of Star Wars;
19. The Environmental Context of Hope in Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games trilogy and M. R. Carey’s The Girl with All the Gifts