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The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis
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The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis Paperback - 1993

by Creed, Barbara (Author)

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Routledge, 1993. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 192 pages. 9.25x6.50x0.75 inches.
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  • Title The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis
  • Author Creed, Barbara (Author)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition New
  • Pages 216
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge, London
  • Date 1993
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # x-0415052599
  • ISBN 9780415052597 / 0415052599
  • Weight 0.78 lbs (0.35 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.26 x 6.18 x 0.61 in (23.52 x 15.70 x 1.55 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Women in motion pictures, Monsters in motion pictures
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 93000445
  • Dewey Decimal Code 791.436

From the publisher

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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