In almost all critical writings on the horror film, woman is conceptualized only as victim. In The Monstrous- Feminine Barbara Creed challenges this patriarchal view by arguing that the prototype of all definitions of the monstrous is the female reproductive body.
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 all definitions of the monstrous is the female reproductive body.
Redefining Femininity Through the Lens of Horror Cinema. In "The Monstrous-Feminine," Barbara Creed offers a groundbreaking critique of the portrayal of women in horror cinema, challenging the traditional notion that women are merely victims.
‘Barbara Creed’s The Monstrous- Feminine is one of the most influential books to emerge in the early 90s. The Monstrous- Feminine defined how our generation and our discipline viewed the horror genre.
Inspired by Barbara Creed’s seminal text The Monstrous-Feminine, this course will examine a diverse selection of literary, cinematic, and works of art that embody, explore, and reimagine the narrative ...
In the 1980s, film scholar Barbara Creed coined the term the "monstrous-feminine", writes Xavier Aldana Reyes. It refers to the way that female monsters are typically portrayed as threatening and ...
Although a projection of male fears and paranoid fantasies, the monstrous-feminine is nonetheless a terrifying figure. Creed’s argument contests Freudian and Lacanian theories of sexual difference to offer a provocative rereading of classical and contemporary horror.
Creed asserts that there are a variety of different appearances of the monstrous feminine which all reflect female sexuality: archaic mother, monstrous womb, vampire, possessed monster, witch, and castrating mother.