The Monstrous-Feminine

Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis

• Author(s): Barbara Creed,
• Publisher: Routledge
• Pages: 216
• ISBN_10: 1136750754
  ISBN_13: 9781136750755
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Performing Arts / General , Performing Arts / Film / General , Psychology / General , Social Science / Media Studies , Social Science / Regional Studies , Social Science / Women's Studies , History / General , Literary Criticism / General ,

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, T