Description: The Monstrous-Feminine Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis Author(s): Barbara Creed Format: Paperback Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom Imprint: Routledge ISBN-13: 9780415052597, 978-0415052597 Synopsis 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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Book Title: The Monstrous-Feminine
Item Height: 234 mm
Item Width: 156 mm
Series: Popular Fictions Series
Author: Barbara Creed
Publication Name: The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Taylor & Francis LTD
Subject: Psychology
Publication Year: 1993
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 327 g
Number of Pages: 216 Pages
