By Barbara Creed
With shut connection with a few vintage horror movies together with the Alien trilogy, The Exorcist and Psycho, Creed analyses the seven `faces' of the monstrous-feminine: archaic mom, titanic womb, vampire, witch, possessed physique, vast mom and castrator. Her argument that guy fears lady as castrator, instead of as castrated, questions not just Freudian theories of sexual distinction yet latest theories of spectatorship and fetishism, offering a provocative re-reading of classical and modern movie and theoretical texts.
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