The Monstrous-Feminine
Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis
by Barbara Creed
216 pages· 2015· ISBN 9781136750755
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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
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