Who is Barbara Creed?
Barbara Creed (born 1943) is a Professor of Cinema Studies in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne and is known for her cultural criticism. Creed is a graduate of the Monash University and LaTrobe University where she completed doctoral research using psychoanalysis and feminist theory to understand certain practises in the horror genre.
What has she done for Horror?
As a whole, Creed's works focus on the horror genre and the impact of patriarchal ideologies upon the genre. Creed focuses on Freudian psychoanalysis (the work of Sigmund Freud).
This theory was created in her book: The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis
She focuses her theory on Horror, especially slasher films and the main theme of the theory being that women pose a threat to men.
This theory was created in her book: The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis
She focuses her theory on Horror, especially slasher films and the main theme of the theory being that women pose a threat to men.
Theories in Action:
Examples of Works:
The Monstrous Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis - In almost all critical writings on the horror film, women are conceptualised only as the victim. In The Monstrous-Feminine Barbara Creed challenges this patriarchal view by arguing that the prototype of all definitions of the monstrous is the female reproductive body.
Phallic Panic - 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?
Phallic Panic - 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?