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This book focuses on how the abject spectacle of the 'monstrous
feminine' has been reimagined by recent and contemporary screen
horrors focused on the desires and subjectivities of female
monsters who, as anti-heroic protagonists of revisionist and
reflexive texts, exemplify gendered possibility in altered cultures
of 21st century screen production and reception. As Barbara Creed
notes in a recent interview, the patriarchal stereotype of horror
that she named 'the monstrous-feminine' has, decades later,
'embarked on a life of her own'. Focused on this altered and
renewed form of female monstrosity, this study engages with an
international array of recent and contemporary screen
entertainments, from arthouse and indie horror films by emergent
female auteurs, to the franchised products of multimedia
conglomerates, to 'quality' television horror, to the social
media-based creations of horror fans working as 'pro-sumers'. In
this way, the monograph in its organisation and scope maps the
converged and rapidly changing environment of 21st century screen
cultures in order to situate the monstrous female anti-hero as one
of its distinctive products.
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