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

The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis

Barbara Creed

182 pages paperback 1993

6 editions

nonfiction feminism horror challenging informative medium-paced
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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 re...

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