Re-Reading the Monstrous-Feminine: Art, Film, Feminism and Psychoanalysis

by Nicholas Chare

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032177322
• ISBN13: 9781032177328
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"