ABSTRACT
This book provides a critical reappraisal of Barbara Creed’s ground-breaking work of feminist psychoanalytic film scholarship, The Monstrous-Feminine, which was first published in 1993. The Monstrous-Feminine married psychoanalytic thinking with film analysis in radically new ways to provide an invaluable corrective to conventional approaches to the study of women in horror films, with their narrow emphasis on woman’s victimhood. This volume, which will mark 25 years since the publication of The Monstrous-Feminine, brings together essays by international scholars working across a variety of disciplines who take up Creed’s ideas in new ways and fresh contexts or, more broadly, explore possible futures for feminist and/or psychoanalytically informed art history and film theory.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|34 pages
Re-reading The Monstrous-Feminine
part I|54 pages
Introduction
part II|49 pages
Introduction
chapter 5|11 pages
The Monstrous-Feminine, Then and Now
part III|48 pages
Introduction
chapter 8|15 pages
‘I Will Not Be That Girl in the Box’
chapter 9|12 pages
‘From a Speculative Point of View I Wondered Which of Us I Was’
chapter 10|14 pages
The ‘Monstrous-Feminine’
part IV|68 pages
Introduction