The term vagina dentata was coined by Sigmund Freud and follows the myth that female genitalia are monster-like, having teeth. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

This opening session traces the history of monstrous women, through the gorgons and sirens of Greek mythology to Early Modern witch hunts and 21st-century media narratives, before turning to two enduring archetypes: the witch and the mother. Throughout this piece, she makes connections to the notion of the ‘primal uncanny’, which suggests that men as monsters. In this final session, we stay with the maiden on the cusp of marriage, as betrayed brides and possessed women seek out supernatural revenge.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Creed's work using the psychoanalysis framework validates its usefulness in the feminist film theory field. The Monstrous-Feminine is a brilliant book and I would definitely recommend to anyone interested in a unique portrayal of gender in horror film. In her profoundly original analysis of horror films, Creed upended a concept emanating from psychoanalysis, traditionally perceived as scaffolding supporting patriarchy, to demonstrate how women could be seen as the agents of abjection rather than as its passive victims.

In her discussion of the many "faces of the monstrous-feminine", she draws on Kristeva's concept of abjection [9] to describe how patriarchal society separates the human from the non-human, and rejects the "partially formed subject". Near the beginning of the book, she scolds the patriarchy for believing that there is no Monstrous Feminine. The Monstrous Feminine - an online day course with Dr Elizabeth Dearnley and Dr Katharine Fry takes place on the 11th of March.

very interesting to see a different perspective on well known films; it encourages more in depth critical readings of popular texts, and certainly stimulates discussion. This updated edition includes a new section examining contemporary feminist horror films in relation to nonhuman theory.

She currently works within the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne where she is a professor of Cinema Studies. With close reference to a number of classic horror films including the Alien trilogy, The Exorcist and Psycho, Creed analyses the seven `faces’ of the monstrous-feminine: archaic mother, monstrous womb, vampire, witch, possessed body, monstrous mother and castrator. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. She has recently edited an anthology of scary fairy fiction, Fearsome Fairies (British Library, 2021), and is currently working on a new project about the Cottingley Fairies and writing a book about the relationship between forests and fairy tales. Nada más abrir el libro he visto varias anotaciones y varios fragmentos subrallados en color azul y rosa.

Exploring these figures within folklore and fairy tales, as well as in contemporary horror revisions such as films The Lure (2015) and Ginger Snaps (2000), we find rampant appetites unleashed at puberty and messy bodies beyond the control of society.

In Darwin's Screens: Evolutionary Aesthetics, Time and Sexual Display in the Cinema, Barbara Creed examines the uncanny through Charles Darwin's works regarding sexual selection and origins. Abjection, or Why Freud Introduces the Phallus: Identification, Castration Theory, and the Logic of Fetishism".

The reproductive system within horror movies is often depicted as monstrous, for example, the 1979 film Alien clearly depicts this theory. The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. It would make no difference whether the child was born in a matriarchy or a patriachy, because the development of the psyche occurs long before any sort of patriarchal indoctrination could ever occur. Creed challenges this view with a feminist psychoanalytic critique, discussing films such as Alien, I Spit on Your Grave and Psycho. Creed argues that a woman's deep connection to natural events such as reproduction and birth is considered ‘quintessentially grotesque’.