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Phallic panic : film, horror and the primal uncanny / Barbara Creed.

Title
Phallic panic : film, horror and the primal uncanny / Barbara Creed.
Author
Creed, Barbara
Publication
Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press, 2005.

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Description
xix, 232 p. : ill., ports.; 21 cm.
Summary
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.
Subject
  • Horror films
  • Horror films > Psychological aspects
  • Psychoanalysis and motion pictures
  • Monsters in motion pictures
  • Men in motion pictures
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 215-224.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
1. Film, horror and the primal uncanny -- 2. Film and the uncanny gaze -- 3. Man as womb monster: Frankenstein, Couvade and the post-human -- 4. Man as menstrual monster: Dracula and his uncanny brides -- 5. Freud's Wolf man, or the tale of Granny's furry phallus -- 6. Fear of fur: bestiality and the uncanny skin monster -- 7. Freddy's fingernails: child abuse, ghosts and the uncanny -- 8. Jack the Ripper: modernity and the uncanny male monster.
ISBN
052285172X
OCLC
  • 64449622
  • SCSB-11443667
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library