9780415052597-0415052599-The Monstrous-Feminine (Popular Fictions Series)

The Monstrous-Feminine (Popular Fictions Series)

ISBN-13: 9780415052597
ISBN-10: 0415052599
Edition: 1
Author: Barbara Creed
Publication date: 1993
Publisher: Routledge
Format: Paperback 216 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780415052597
ISBN-10: 0415052599
Edition: 1
Author: Barbara Creed
Publication date: 1993
Publisher: Routledge
Format: Paperback 216 pages

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The Monstrous-Feminine (Popular Fictions Series) (ISBN-13: 9780415052597 and ISBN-10: 0415052599), written by authors Barbara Creed, was published by Routledge in 1993. With an overall rating of 3.6 stars, it's a notable title among other Psychology & Counseling (General, Psychology, Communication & Media Studies, Social Sciences, Women's Studies) books. You can easily purchase or rent The Monstrous-Feminine (Popular Fictions Series) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Psychology & Counseling books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $14.45.

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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, 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. Her argument that man fears woman as castrator, rather than as castrated, questions not only Freudian theories of sexual difference but existing theories of spectatorship and fetishism, providing a provocative re-reading of classical and contemporary film and theoretical texts.

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