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The Monstrous-Feminine

Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis

by Barbara Creed ...

Series series Popular Fictions Series
This is a timely update of a seminal text which re-interprets key films of the horror genre, including Carrie, The Exorcist, The Brood and Psycho.In the first edition, Creed draws on Julia Kristeva’s theory of abjection to challenge the popular view that women in horror are almost always victims, and argues that patriarchal ideology constructs women as monstrous in relation to her sexuality and ... Read more

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This is a timely update of a seminal text which re-interprets key films of the horror genre, including Carrie, The Exorcist, The Brood and Psycho.In the first edition, Creed draws on Julia Kristeva’s theory of abjection to challenge the popular view that women in horror are almost always victims, and argues that patriarchal ideology constructs women as monstrous in relation to her sexuality and
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Plunged

Into The Unseen

by Shilo Creed ...

Narrated by Daniel Bond, Barbara Smith ...

Series Audiobook 1 - The Three Worlds
Unabridged

9 hours 6 min

Jacob Carter built his life around one vow: never be helpless again.As a Navy SEAL, fear is buried under discipline, muscle, and mission. He runs toward danger, protects the weak, and survives what breaks other men.Then an admiral forces him into Project 157.The experiment tears him through the hull of a weaponless ship and strips away everything he mistook for strength. Jacob wakes in a spiritual ... Read more

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Jacob Carter built his life around one vow: never be helpless again.As a Navy SEAL, fear is buried under discipline, muscle, and mission. He runs toward danger, protects the weak, and survives what breaks other men.Then an admiral forces him into Project 157.The experiment tears him through the hull of a weaponless ship and strips away everything he mistook for strength. Jacob wakes in a spiritual
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Return of the Monstrous-Feminine

Feminist New Wave Cinema

by Barbara Creed ...

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.Examining a new movement – termed by Creed as Feminist New Wave Cinema – The Return of the Monstrous-Feminine explores a significant change ... Read more

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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.Examining a new movement – termed by Creed as Feminist New Wave Cinema – The Return of the Monstrous-Feminine explores a significant change
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Body Trade

Captivity, Cannibalism and Colonialism in the Pacific

Edited by Barbara Creed, Jeanette Hoorn ...

Body Trade exposes myths surrounding the trade in heads, cannibalism, captive white women, the display of indigenous people in fairs and circuses, the stolen generations, the 'comfort' women and the making of the exotic/erotic body. This is a lively and intriguiung comtribution to the study of the postcolonial body. ... Read more

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Body Trade exposes myths surrounding the trade in heads, cannibalism, captive white women, the display of indigenous people in fairs and circuses, the stolen generations, the 'comfort' women and the making of the exotic/erotic body. This is a lively and intriguiung comtribution to the study of the postcolonial body.
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Darwin's Screens

Evolutionary Aesthetics, Time and Sexual Display in the Cinema

by Barbara Creed ...

Darwin's Screens addresses a major gap in film scholarship—the key influence of Charles Darwin's theories on the history of the cinema. Much has been written on the effect of other great thinkers such as Freud and Marx but very little on the important role played by Darwinian ideas on the evolution of the newest art form of the twentieth century. Creed argues that Darwinian ideas influenced the ... Read more

$19.49 USD

Darwin's Screens addresses a major gap in film scholarship—the key influence of Charles Darwin's theories on the history of the cinema. Much has been written on the effect of other great thinkers such as Freud and Marx but very little on the important role played by Darwinian ideas on the evolution of the newest art form of the twentieth century. Creed argues that Darwinian ideas influenced the
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Phallic Panic

by Barbara Creed ...

Vampires, werewolves, cannibals and slashers-why do audiences find monsters in movies so terrifying? In Phallic Panic, Barbara Creed ranges widely across film, literature and myth, throwing new light on this haunted territory. Looking at classic horror films such as Frankenstein, The Shining and Jack the Ripper, Creed provocatively questions the anxieties, fears and the subversive thrills behind ... Read more

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Vampires, werewolves, cannibals and slashers-why do audiences find monsters in movies so terrifying? In Phallic Panic, Barbara Creed ranges widely across film, literature and myth, throwing new light on this haunted territory. Looking at classic horror films such as Frankenstein, The Shining and Jack the Ripper, Creed provocatively questions the anxieties, fears and the subversive thrills behind
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Nonhuman Cinema

Edited by Barbara Creed, Cristóbal Escobar ...

In an era defined by environmental crisis, artificial intelligence, and multispecies interdependence, what happens if we continue to ignore crucial nonhuman relationships that weigh so significantly on the future of the planet? Nonhuman Cinema explores how film can destabilize anthropocentrism and help us see and think beyond the human. In doing so, it defines what a nonhuman cinema might look ... Read more

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In an era defined by environmental crisis, artificial intelligence, and multispecies interdependence, what happens if we continue to ignore crucial nonhuman relationships that weigh so significantly on the future of the planet? Nonhuman Cinema explores how film can destabilize anthropocentrism and help us see and think beyond the human. In doing so, it defines what a nonhuman cinema might look
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Pursued

Beyond The Veil

by Shilo Creed ...

Narrated by Daniel Bond, Barbara Smith ...

Series Audiobook 2 - The Three Worlds
Unabridged

11 hours 49 min

Sage Emerson kept Jacob Carter alive once.Now the war that nearly destroyed him is reaching for her.They escaped Project 157, but Admiral Ash wants them back, and the One World Government is watching every road, every camera, every mile between them and freedom.Ash does not see Jacob as a man.He sees altered blood.A connection to the spirit.A weapon waiting to be reclaimed.Jacob knows it too, ... Read more

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Sage Emerson kept Jacob Carter alive once.Now the war that nearly destroyed him is reaching for her.They escaped Project 157, but Admiral Ash wants them back, and the One World Government is watching every road, every camera, every mile between them and freedom.Ash does not see Jacob as a man.He sees altered blood.A connection to the spirit.A weapon waiting to be reclaimed.Jacob knows it too,
... Read more
Knowing Your Place

Rural Identity and Cultural Hierarchy

Edited by Barbara Ching, Gerald W. Creed ...

Knowing Your Place directs groundbreaking attention to the role of rural and urban places in identity construction. Written to redress the longstanding neglect and denigration of the rural, this book argues that the cultural dominance of the city has been reinforced by postmodern theory's near fixation on the urban and the sophisticated.The essays explore rural identity in a number of cultures and ... Read more

$69.99 USD

Knowing Your Place directs groundbreaking attention to the role of rural and urban places in identity construction. Written to redress the longstanding neglect and denigration of the rural, this book argues that the cultural dominance of the city has been reinforced by postmodern theory's near fixation on the urban and the sophisticated.The essays explore rural identity in a number of cultures and
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Horror

by Brigid Cherry ...

Series series Routledge Film Guidebooks
Horror cinema is a hugely successful, but at the same time culturally illicit genre that spans the history of cinema. It continues to flourish with recent cycles of supernatural horror and torture porn that span the full range of horror styles and aesthetics. It is enjoyed by audiences everywhere, but also seen as a malign influence by others.In this Routledge Film Guidebook, audience researcher ... Read more

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Horror cinema is a hugely successful, but at the same time culturally illicit genre that spans the history of cinema. It continues to flourish with recent cycles of supernatural horror and torture porn that span the full range of horror styles and aesthetics. It is enjoyed by audiences everywhere, but also seen as a malign influence by others.In this Routledge Film Guidebook, audience researcher
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Horror

A Very Short Introduction

by Darryl Jones ...

Series series Very Short Introductions
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Four o'clock in the morning, and the lights are on and still there's no way we're going to sleep, not after the film we just saw. The book we just read. Fear is one of the most primal human emotions, and one of the hardest to reason with and dispel. So why do we scare ourselves? It seems almost mad that we would frighten ourselves for fun, and ... Read more

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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Four o'clock in the morning, and the lights are on and still there's no way we're going to sleep, not after the film we just saw. The book we just read. Fear is one of the most primal human emotions, and one of the hardest to reason with and dispel. So why do we scare ourselves? It seems almost mad that we would frighten ourselves for fun, and
... Read more

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David Cronenberg

Author or Filmmaker?

by Mark Browning ...

For more than thirty years, David Cronenberg has made independent films such as Scanners and A History of Violence which aim to disturb, surprise, and challenge audiences. He has also repeatedly drawn on literary fiction for inspiration, adapting themes from authors like William Burroughs, J. G. Ballard, and Patrick McGrath for the big screen; David Cronenberg: Author or Filmmaker? is the first ... Read more

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For more than thirty years, David Cronenberg has made independent films such as Scanners and A History of Violence which aim to disturb, surprise, and challenge audiences. He has also repeatedly drawn on literary fiction for inspiration, adapting themes from authors like William Burroughs, J. G. Ballard, and Patrick McGrath for the big screen; David Cronenberg: Author or Filmmaker? is the first
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