The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis (Popular Fictions Series)

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Creed’s argument contests Freudian and Lacanian theories of sexual difference to offer a provocative rereading of classical and contemporary horror. This exemplifies how sexually active women are harlots, who warrant their own death, wherein only the "pure" women deserve to live.

Nada más abrir el libro he visto varias anotaciones y varios fragmentos subrallados en color azul y rosa.This is a timely update of a seminal text which re-interprets key films of the horror genre, including Carrie, The Exorcist, The Brood and Psycho.

She includes a definition of "Matrix" in the book's introduction, which she describes as a, " womb; place in which thing is developed", which closely relates to her discussion of the monstrous feminine. 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. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. In this new edition Creed expands and updates the filmography to include horror films created by women to augment the ways in which the monstrous-feminine functions deliciously as patriarchy’s retribution.

Women in horror films have been consistently represented and portrayed as weak, submissive, and highly sexualized.

Creed argues that the monstrous feminine horrifies her audience through her sexuality, as she is either constructed as a virgin or a whore.Barbara Creed has published a multitude of material on gender and horror, including: The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism. In this new and expanded edition of the classic The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis, Barbara Creed adds a crucial monstrous-feminine register: the nonhuman. Primarily, Barbara Creed's works focus on the horror genre, and the impact of patriarchal ideologies upon the genre. Barbara Creed examines Carrie and T he Exorcist, and critiques the way in which they represent adolescent young women as ‘possessed’ or ‘demonised’ during puberty and menstruation.

We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. She currently works within the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne where she is a professor of Cinema Studies. One example is that when a boy sees the female genitalia for the first time, he assumes that she has lost her penis; it must have been cut off. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.Creed challenges this view with a feminist psychoanalytic critique, discussing films such as Alien, I Spit on Your Grave and Psycho.