The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis

In almost all critical writings on the horror film, woman is conceptualised only as victim. In The Monstrous-Feminine Barbara Creed challenges this patriarchal view by arguing that the prototype of al…

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