Author Anneke Smelik

Anneke Smelik

Anneke Smelik is Professor of Visual Culture at Radboud University Nijmegen (NL). She wrote And the Mirror Cracked: Film Theory and Feminist Cinema and co-edited Bits of Life: Feminist Studies of Media, Biocultures and Technoscience.

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Phallic Panic: Film, Horror and the Primal Uncanny by Barbara Creed

May 2007

What are monsters? What role do they fulfil in modern society? These are the leading questions that Barbara Creed addresses in Phallic Panic. Cinema is the contemporary medium to tell stories about monstrous be...