Return of the Monstrous-Feminine: Feminist New Wave Cinema

ISBN-13: 9780367478179 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 192 str.

Barbara Creed

Opis

This follow-up to the classic text of The Monstrous-Feminine analyses those contemporary films which explore social justice issues such as women’s equality, violence against women, queer relationships, race and the plight of the planet and its multi-species.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Monstrous-Feminine In Feminist New Wave Cinema The Monstrous Mother As Magician: The Babadook. Unwomen: Dare To Revolt – The Handmaid’s Tale, Film & Tv Series. #Metoo – Rape & Revolt: Promising Young Woman, Revenge, The Nightingale. The Monstrous-Feminine Forgets Her Manners: Nomadland, Carol, The Assistant. 5. Vampires, Feminism & Ethnicity: A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night. The Monstrous-Feminine As Femme Fatale, Alien & Black: Under The Skin. 7.Queering The Monstrous-Feminine: Jennifer’s Body, The Lure, Thelma. 8. Cannibalism & Eating The Other: Raw, Trouble Everyday, In My Skin. 9.Furiosa: Eco-Horror & The Woman Warrior: Spoor, Woman At War, Mad Max: Fury Road,

O autorze

Barbara Creed is Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of six books, including The Monstrous-Feminine: film, feminism, psychoanalysis (1993), now in its ninth edition; Darwin’s Screens: evolutionary aesthetics, time & sexual display in the cinema (2009); and most recently Stray: human-animal ethics in the Anthropocene (2017). Her recent research is in feminist new wave cinema, ethics in the Anthropocene and animal/human studies. Her writings have been translated into eleven languages for publication in academic journals and anthologies. She is the director of the Human Rights and Animal Ethics Research Network (HRAE). Barbara has been invited to participate in international research events, including the Courtauld Institute (UK), the Yale Centre for British Art, and the Cultural Programs of the National Academy of the Sciences (US). She is active in the wider community and has been on the boards of Writers Week, the Melbourne International and the Melbourne Queer Film Festivals & film critic for The Age, The Big Issue and ABC National Radio.