"Explores not only the cinematic interpretations of the Hellraiser mythos but also its intrusion into other artistic and cultural forms. It examines various themes found throughout the film series and the ways in which the representation of these themes changes from film to film…
"Explores not only the cinematic interpretations of the Hellraiser mythos but also its intrusion into other artistic and cultural forms. It examines various themes found throughout the film series and the ways in which the representation of these themes changes from film to film…
In this examination of the monster as cultural object, Judith Halberstam offers a rereading of the monstrous that revises our view of the Gothic. Moving from the nineteenth century and the works of Shelley, Stevenson, Stoker, and Wilde to contemporary horror film exemplified by …
In this examination of the monster as cultural object, Judith Halberstam offers a rereading of the monstrous that revises our view of the Gothic. Moving from the nineteenth century and the works of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Bram…
"In almost all critical writings on the horror film, woman is conceptualised only as 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. With close ref…
"In almost all critical writings on the horror film, woman is conceptualised only as 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. With close re…
"In the middle of the eighteenth century the Gothic became the universal language of architecture, painting and literature, expressing a love not only of ruins, decay and medieval pageantry, but also the drug-induced monsters of the mind. By explaining the international dimensio…
"In the middle of the eighteenth century the Gothic became the universal language of architecture, painting and literature, expressing a love not only of ruins, decay and medieval pageantry, but also the drug-induced monsters of the mind. By explaining the international dimensio…
In Phallic panic, Barbara Creed explores the nature of male monstrosity through twentieth century form of cinema. Whether vampire mad scientist, cannibal, or Freud's wolf man, these monsters all strike at the heart of masculinity and what it means to a society.