Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Chare, Nicholas
• Hoorn, Jeanette
• Yue, Audrey

Titel

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

Auflage

1st

Ort / Verlag

Oxford: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 'Re-reading the Monstrous-Feminine offers a welcome, far-reaching and much-overdue re-appraisal of one of the most influential pieces of scholarship on women, horror, and psychoanalytic film theory.' -Erin Harrington, University of Canterbury, New Zealand 'It is long past time for an extended appraisal of Barbara Creed's ground-breaking conception of the "monstrous-feminine," and this collection makes clear the continued relevance of Creed's theory to a proliferating array of bodies and texts.' -Dawn Keetley, Lehigh University, USA This book provides a critical reappraisal of Barbara Creed's groundbreaking 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.