Monstrous Possibilities: The Female Monster in 21st Century Screen Horror

by Amanda Howell and Lucy Baker

Book Overview

This book focuses on how the abject spectacle of the 'monstrous feminine' has been reimagined by recent and contemporary screen horrors focused on the desires and subjectivities of female monsters who, as anti-heroic protagonists of revisionist and reflexive texts, exemplify gendered possibility in altered cultures of 21st century screen production and reception. As Barbara Creed notes in a recent interview, the patriarchal stereotype of horror that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 303112846X
• ISBN13: 9783031128462
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"