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Womb monsters

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March 2006, no. 279

Phallic Panic: Film, horror and the primal uncanny by Barbara Creed

MUP, $32.95 pb, 232 pp, 052285172X

Womb monsters

by
March 2006, no. 279

What is a monster? Why are we so recurringly fascinated by graphic representations of the monstrous? And, in particular, what do cinematic images of male monstrosity tell us about the ways in which Western culture produces and views the categories of masculine and feminine?  Barbara Creed’s new book is a direct extension of much of the lively work she did in The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis (1993). In Phallic Panic, she moves from her earlier consideration of how we might interpret visions of female monstrosity as evidence of profound anxiety about the role of the woman in phallocentric society, particularly in her vagina dentata manifestations, to an examination of the cultural and psychological implications of male monsters. 

Phallic Panic: Film, horror and the primal uncanny

Phallic Panic: Film, horror and the primal uncanny

by Barbara Creed

MUP, $32.95 pb, 232 pp, 052285172X

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