The Monstrous-Feminine - Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Popular Fictions Series
Release date:	September 1993
First published:	1993
Authors:	Barbara Creed
Dimensions:	234 x 155 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	182
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-05259-7
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > Film theory & criticism Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > Feminism
LSN:	0-415-05259-9
Barcode:	9780415052597

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