Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis
by
Barbara Creed
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
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...