Re-reading the Monstrous-Feminine

Nicholas Chare is Associate Professor of Modern Art in the Department of History of Art and Film Studies at the Université de Montréal, Canada. He is the author of After Francis Bacon (2012) and Sportswomen in Cinema (2015) and the co-editor with Liz Watkins of Gesture and Film (2017) and with Katharina Bonzel of Representations of Sports Coaches in Film (2017).

This book brings together essays by international scholars who take up Barbara Creed's ideas, first explored in her book The Monstrous-Feminine. in new ways and fresh contexts or, exploring possible futures for feminist and/or psychoanalytically informed art history and film theory.

1. Re-Reading The Monstrous-Feminine: new approaches to psychoanalytic theory, affect, film and art Part I: Introduction: Feminism and Psychoanalysis 2. Symmetry and Incident: Laura Mulvey in Conversation with Nicholas Chare 3. A Dream of Bare Arms: 'Womanliness', Dirt, and a Quest for Knowledge 4. Feminism, Film, and Theory Now Part II: Introduction: Expanding the Monstrous Feminine 5. The Monstrous-Feminine, Then and Now: Barbara Creed in Conversation with Nicholas Chare 6. Abjection Beyond Tears: Ellyn Burstyn as Liminal (On Set) Mother in The Exorcist 7. Carrie's Sisters: New Blood in Contemporary Female Horror Cinema Part III: Introduction: Reproductive and Post-Reproductive Bodies and the Monstrous-Feminine 8. 'I will not be that girl in the box': The Handmaid's Tale, Monstrous Wombs and Trump's America 9. 'From a speculative point of view I wondered which of us I was': Rereading Old Women 10. The"Monstrous-Feminine": Dementia, Psychoanalysis and Mother-Daughter Relations in Dana Walrath's Aliceheimer's Part IV: Introduction: Rethinking the Monstrous-Feminine through a Transnational Frame 11. Polluted Water: Demotic Thai Cinema and Queer Abjection in the Films of Poj Arnon 12. The Monstrous-Feminine in the Millenial Japanese Horror Film: Problematic M(O)thers and their Monstrous Children in Ringu, Honogurai mizo no soko kara and Ju-On 13. Women in the Way? Re-reading The monstrous-feminine in contemporary Slovenian cinema 14. In-Your-Face: The Monstrous-Feminine in Photography, Performance Art, Multimedia and Painting