The monstrous-feminine : film, feminism, psychoanalysis /
"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. Although a projection of male fears and fantasies, the monstrous-feminine is a nonetheless a terrifying figure. In the first edition, Creed draws o...
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
2024.
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Kristeva, femininity, abjection
- Horror and the archaic mother : Alien
- Woman as possessed monster : The exorcist
- Woman as monstrous womb : The brood
- Woman as vampire : The hunger
- Woman as witch : Carrie
- 'Little hans' reconsidered : or 'the tale of mother's terrifying widdler'
- Medusa's head : the Vagina Dentata and Freudian theory
- The femme castratrice : I spit on your grave, sisters
- The castrating mother : Psycho
- The Medusa's gaze
- Introduction : the nonhuman turn an women's horror of the new millennium
- Coming of age : the monstrous-feminine as Virginal Dentata : Ginger Snaps : (2000), Teeth (2007), Jennifer's Body (2009).
- The monstrous-feminine as avenging zombie : The girl with all the gifts (2016), The dark (2018), Atlantics (2019).
- The monstrous-feminine as uncanny creatrix : Border (2018), Little Joe (2019), Titane (2021).