Psychoanalysis is a common methodology applied to the analysis of horror and science fiction texts, especially when examining the maternal female body. Discuss the creation of the ‘monstrous feminine’ in a film of your choice (do not use Ridley Scott’s Alien), and what this representation of monstrosity conveys about gender relations, patriarchal society, and the creation of the abject. Recommended Reading:
Barbara Creed (1993) The Monstrous Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis, London, Routledge.
Barbara Creed (2000) “Man as Womb Monster: Frankenstein, Couvade and the Post-Human”, Phallic Panic: Film, Horror and the Primal Uncanny, Melbourne, Melbourne UP, pp. 41-67.
Xavier Aldana Reyes, Horror Film and Affect: Towards a Corporeal Model of Viewership, New York, Routledge, pp. 28-53.
Barbara Kennedy (2001), “From Oedipal Myths…To New Interventions”, Deleuze and Cinema: The Aesthetics of Sensation, Edinburgh, Edinburgh UP, pp. 38-66.
Kristeva, Julia (1982) Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection, New York, Columbia University Press.
Diana Adesola Mafe (2018) Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before: Subversive Portrayals in Speculative Film and Television, Austin: University of Texas Press, Chapter 2.
Despina Kakoudaki (2014) Anatomy of a Robot: Literature, Cinema, and the Cultural Work of Artificial People, New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, pp 29-68.
Anna Powell, (2016) “The Feel of The House of Usher”, The
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