Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
Contents:
Framing the beast of individuation -- A woman's beast: the silence of the lambs -- The male quest: when the hero doesn't get "the girl" -- Love affairs with the beast: two women of screwball comedy -- The beast of The diamond -- The child's quest: a first glimpse of mortality -- Catherine Breillat and the fairy tale quest as "passage" -- Robert Bresson and the feminine face of god -- Filmography.
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