The monstrous-feminine : film, feminism, psychoanalysis

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The monstrous-feminine : film, feminism, psychoanalysis

Barbara Creed

Routledge, c2024 [i.e. 2023]

2nd ed

  • : pbk

Available at  / 2 libraries

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

  • 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)

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