Description for Phallic Panic
Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 207 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 328.
The horror film has always been populated by male monsters, many of which do carry out monstrous acts of violation, rape and castration. The horror film is also filled with male monsters who grow fur, change shape, bleed and give birth. What is it that defines male monstrosity? How does the male monster differ from the female monster? In contrast to the monstrous-feminine, the male monster is almost always defined in close relation to its sexual other, that is, the male monster is a feminised creature linked to woman, nature and the animal. Woman is the prototype, the male monster ... Read more
The horror film has always been populated by male monsters, many of which do carry out monstrous acts of violation, rape and castration. The horror film is also filled with male monsters who grow fur, change shape, bleed and give birth. What is it that defines male monstrosity? How does the male monster differ from the female monster? In contrast to the monstrous-feminine, the male monster is almost always defined in close relation to its sexual other, that is, the male monster is a feminised creature linked to woman, nature and the animal. Woman is the prototype, the male monster ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Melbourne University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
252
Place of Publication
Carlton, Australia
ISBN
9780522851724
SKU
V9780522851724
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99-50
About Barbara Creed
Barbara Creed is a graduate of Monash and La Trobe Universities. Her doctoral thesis was on the cinema of horror, feminism and psychoanalysis, and was published as The Monstrous-Feminine (1993) by Routledge. Her areas of research include contemporary film, surrealism, feminist and psychoanalytic theory—areas in which she has widely published. She has recently published Media Matrix: Sexing the ... Read more
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