Introduction : femininity and film genres -- Freud and classical Hollywood. Freud and the death-mother -- Transformations of the woman's film : or, feminine myths -- Modern horror. Modern horror as the concealed woman's film -- Medusa in the mirror : Brian de Palma's Carrie -- Demeter and Persephone in space : transformation, femininity, and myth in the alien films -- The finalizing woman : horror, femininity, and queer monsters -- Coda : the brave one.
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