ABSTRACT
We experience film and art, cognitively and affectually, and each is implicated in both the social and the psychical. Whose stories, whose desires are told in film, explored in art is an issue, but also how it is possible or impossible to tell of desire. This essay explores current questions of feminism and femininity as well as subjectivity and film, drawing on my work over a number of years and in recently published essays. The essay is themed around the question of horror – the horrible – in an engagement with the groundbreaking study of the horror film by Barbara Creed. They address the seen and the heard – the gaze and the voice – in film and new media.
