Description: In almost all critical writings on the horror film, woman is conceptualised only as victim. In The Monstrous-Feminine Barbara Creed challenges this patriarchal view by arguing that the prototype of all definitions of the monstrous is the female reproductive body.With close reference to a number of classic horror films including the Alien trilogy, The Exorcist and Psycho, Creed analyses the seven `faces' of the monstrous-feminine: archaic mother, monstrous womb, vampire, witch, possessed body, monstrous mother and castrator. Her argument that man fears woman as castrator, rather than as castrated, questions not only Freudian theories of sexual difference but existing theories of spectatorship and fetishism, providing a provocative re-reading of classical and contemporary film and theoretical texts.
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EAN: 9781138127708
UPC: 9781138127708
ISBN: 9781138127708
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Book Title: The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanal
Item Length: 23.4 cm
Number of Pages: 216 Pages
Publication Name: The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Publisher: Taylor & Francis LTD
Item Height: 234 mm
Subject: Psychology
Publication Year: 2015
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 454 g
Author: Barbara Creed
Item Width: 156 mm
Series: Popular Fictions Series
Format: Hardcover
