The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis (Popular Fictions Series)

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Media Matrix also examines the role of media and news in the modern era, with a particular interest to how an overwhelming majority of fiction showcases the horrific, evokes fear, and the abject.

Coming full circle from the maiden back to the mother, our examples include the Wilis, the chorus of thwarted ghost brides in the ballet Giselle, and the murderous pregnant woman in Alice Lowe’s 2016 film Prevenge. You can watch the video straight from our page once you’ve paid or log in to your Vimeo account, where you can find all the videos that you have rented.

This book is sometimes hard to read, and the concepts of psychoanlaysis that she draws on are often dubious. Creed's ideology of the woman's reproductive system is similarly analyzed within the works of Kristeva. On the other hand, women depicted as villains are portrayed as innately evil, and their monstrosity is connected to their reproductive bodily functions.

Creed uses films that were influenced by Darwin in the nineteenth century to analyze film techniques related to Darwin's works.The Monstrous Feminine - an online day course with Dr Elizabeth Dearnley and Dr Katharine Fry takes place on the 11th of March. Creed analyses women as monstrous through their roles in horror movies playing witches, vampires, archaic mothers, possessed monsters and mythical creatures, such as Medusa. She has curated several projects exploring the intersections of folklore and place, including mass diary-writing project The Secret Diary of Bloomsbury, immersive 1940s Red Riding Hood retelling Big Teeth, and the Freud Museum London’s uncanny restaging of E. Throughout the book, Creed observes how women are positioned as victims within the horror film genre, and challenges this overriding patriarchal and one-dimensional understanding of women. She explains that concepts of the monstrous feminine within horror arose from male concerns regarding female sexual difference and castration.

When you rent one of our On Demand events, you will be able to watch it right away and stream the video anytime during the specified rental period. One example is that when a boy sees the female genitalia for the first time, he assumes that she has lost her penis; it must have been cut off. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Creed defines this "crisis TV", wherein news reporters focus on disasters to provoke anxiety and immediacy, and bring the abject into reality.During the Oedipal and pre Oedipal phases of childhood development, the child's curiousity about sexual knowledge can be laden with anxiety. Women in horror films have been consistently represented and portrayed as weak, submissive, and highly sexualized. In the beginning of this piece, she discusses The Matrix (1999) and Strange Days (1995) in relation to the concept of ‘jacking-in’, that is the use of technology to alter reality and experience life in other people's minds much like virtual reality. If you are a Member you can apply your promo code when you enter your billing info for 20% discount. Then throughout the rest of the book, she blames men and the patriarchy for representing the feminine as monstrous.