The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis (Popular Fictions Series)

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Coming full circle from the maiden back to the mother, our examples include the Wilis, the chorus of thwarted ghost brides in the ballet Giselle, and the murderous pregnant woman in Alice Lowe’s 2016 film Prevenge. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. This book is sometimes hard to read, and the concepts of psychoanlaysis that she draws on are often dubious.

She has recently edited an anthology of scary fairy fiction, Fearsome Fairies (British Library, 2021), and is currently working on a new project about the Cottingley Fairies and writing a book about the relationship between forests and fairy tales. Freud applies this theory to Medusa, as Creed explains that Freud's compares the female genitalia to Medusa as men fear castration from the sight of her. Overall, Creed's work is of interest to feminist theory and psychoanalysis and how these theories can be applied to horror films. Facebook sets this cookie to show relevant advertisements to users by tracking user behaviour across the web, on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin.Whereas Freud believed that the Father was the one viewed by the child as the castrator, Barbara Creed has shown it is actually the mother. The Monstrous Feminine refers to the interpretation of horror films conceptualizing women, predominantly, as victims. Kristeva's theory therefore can be applied to the monstrous feminine, particularly the themes of the mother-child relationship and the mother's womb, which both relate to the ‘ archaic mother’.

She performs close textual analysis of key horror films including Carrie, The Exorcist, Psycho and Alien. I have used the term “monstrous-feminine”’, she wrote, ‘as the term “female monster” implies a simple reversal of “male monster”’. In this new edition, Creed does it again, recontextualizing the conception of the monstrous-feminine to track many of the evolutions in the horror genre and this revised edition will continue to shape our understanding of the horror genre in the new millennium. Nada más abrir el libro he visto varias anotaciones y varios fragmentos subrallados en color azul y rosa.

We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Point by point, Barbara Creed has shown that the faces of the Monstrous Feminine as seen in the horror film, are based in the actual psychology of the developing child in the early experiences of childhood and infancy. The questions children have regarding the genitals are not explained by rational adults, so the child is left to fill in the blanks. Barbara Creed has published a multitude of material on gender and horror, including: The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism. Barbara Creed’s The Monstrous-Feminine is one of the most influential books to emerge in the early 90s.