The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : 2023
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 248
- Category :
Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 97357
- ISBN 13 : 9780367209452
- ISBN 10 : 0367209454
Table of Contents
Part I: Faces of the Monstrous-Feminine: Abjection and the Maternal
1. Kristeva, Femininity, Abjection
2. Horror and the Archaic Mother: Alien
3. Woman as Possessed Monster: The Exorcist
4. Woman as Monstrous Womb: The Brood
5. Woman as Vampire: The Hunger
6. Woman as Witch: Carrie
Part II: Medusa’s Head: Psychoanalytic Theory and the Femme Castratrice
7. ‘Little Hans’ Reconsidered: or ‘The Tale of Mother’s Terrifying Widdler’
8. Medusa’s Head: the Vagina Dentata and Freudian theory
9. The femme castratrice: I spit on your grave, sisters
10. The Castrating Mother: Psycho
11. The Medusa’s Gaze
Part III: Revolt of the Monstrous-Feminine: Embracing the Nonhuman
Introduction: The Nonhuman Turn an Women’s Horror of the New Millennium
12. Coming of Age: The Monstrous-Feminine as Virginal Dentata: Ginger Snaps: (2000), Teeth (2007), Jennifer’s Body (2009).
13. The Monstrous-Feminine as Avenging Zombie: The Girl With All The Gifts (2016), The Dark (2018), Atlantics (2019).
14. The Monstrous-Feminine as Uncanny Creatrix: Border (2018), Little Joe (2019), Titane (2021).
Bibliography
Filmography
Index