The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis by Barbara Creed

By Barbara Creed

In just about all severe writings at the horror movie, girl is conceptualised in simple terms as sufferer. In The Monstrous-Feminine Barbara Creed demanding situations this patriarchal view by way of arguing that the prototype of all definitions of the massive is the feminine reproductive body.
With shut connection with a few vintage horror motion pictures together with the Alien trilogy, The Exorcist and Psycho, Creed analyses the seven `faces' of the monstrous-feminine: archaic mom, mammoth womb, vampire, witch, possessed physique, big mom and castrator. Her argument that guy fears lady as castrator, instead of as castrated, questions not just Freudian theories of sexual distinction yet latest theories of spectatorship and fetishism, offering a provocative re-reading of classical and modern movie and theoretical texts.

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