The Hetaera's Monster: The Sublime Mother in the Slasher Film Genre

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The Journal of Popular CultureEarly View Original Article The Hetaera's Monster: The Sublime Mother in the Slasher Film Genre Charles E. Hicks, Corresponding Author Charles E. Hicks [email protected] Search for more papers by this author Charles E. Hicks, Corresponding Author Charles E. Hicks [email protected] Search for more papers by this author First published: 22 June 2023 https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13186Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Works Cited Arnold, Sarah. Maternal Horror Film: Melodrama and Motherhood. Palgrave, 2013. Baffes, Melanie. Love, Loss, and Abjection: The Journey of New Birth in the Gospel of John. Pickwick, 2016. Carroll, Noël. The Philosophy of Horror: Paradoxes of the Heart. Routledge, 1990. Clover, Carol J. Men, Women, and Chain Saws. Princeton UP, 1992. Creed, Barbara. The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis. Routledge, 1993. Deleuze, Gilles. Masochism. Zone, 1991. Fink, Bruce. The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance. Princeton UP, 1995. Geyskens, Tomas. “ Literature as Symptomatology: Gilles Deleuze on Sacher-Masoch.” Deleuze and Psychoanalysis: Philosophical Essays on Deleuze's Debate with Psychoanalysis, edited by Leen Bolle, Leuven UP, 2010, pp. 103– 16. Halberstam, Judith. Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters. Duke UP, 1995. Halloween. Directed by Rob Zombie, Dimension, 2007. Halloween II. Directed by Rob Zombie, Dimension, 2009. Harrington, Erin. Women, Monstrosity and Horror Film: Gynaehorror. Routledge, 2018. Hollinger, Karen. “ The Monsters as Woman: Two Generations of Cat People.” The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film, edited by Barry Keith Grant, University of Texas UP, 2015, pp. 346– 58. Jenkins, Barbara. Eros and Economy: Jung, Deleuze, Sexual Difference. Routledge, 2017. Kaplan, E. Ann. “ The Case of the Missing Mother.” Feminism & Film, edited by E. Ann Kaplan, Oxford UP, 2000, pp. 466– 78. Kaplan, E. Ann. Motherhood and Representation: The Mother in Popular Culture and Melodrama. Routledge, 1992. Kristeva, Julia. Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia. Translated by Leon S. Roudiez, Columbia UP, 1988. Kristeva, Julia. “ Julia Kristeva.” Women Analyze Women: In France, England, and the United States, edited by Elaine Hoffman Baruch, and Lucienne J. Serrano, New York UP, 1988, pp. 129– 48. Kristeva, Julia. Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection. Translated by Leon S. Roudiez, Columbia UP, 1982. Mattoon, Mary Ann. Jungian Psychology in Perspective. Free Press, 1981. Mulvey, Laura. “ Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.” Feminism & Film, edited by E. Ann Kaplan, Oxford UP, 2000, pp. 34– 47. Oliver, Kelly. Reading Kristeva: Unraveling the Double-bind. Indiana UP, 1993. Powell, Anna. Deleuze and the Horror Film. Edinburgh UP. 2005. Red Dragon. Directed by Brett Ratner, Universal, 2002. Santner, Eric L. On Creaturely Life: Rilke, Benjamin, Sebald. Chicago UP, 2006. Scott, Darieck. Extravagant Abjection: Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination. New York UP, 2010. Sobchack, Vivian. “ Bringing It All Back Home: Family Economy and Generic Exchange.” The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film, edited by Barry Keith Grant, University of Texas UP, 2015, pp. 171– 92. Studlar, Gaylyn. In the Realm of Pleasure: Von Sternberg, Dietrich, and the Masochistic Aesthetic. Illinois UP, 1988. Tarr, Clayton Carlyle. Gothic Stories Within Stories: Frame Narratives and Realism in the Genre, 1790-1900. McFarland & Company, Inc., 2017. Verhaeghe, Paul. “ Enjoyment and Impossibility: Lacan's Revision of the Oedipus Complex.” Jacques Lacan and the Other Side of Psychoanalysis: Reflections on Seminar XVII, edited by Justin Clements, and Russell Grigg, Duke UP, 2006, pp. 29– 49. Williams, Linda. “ When the Woman Looks.” The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film, edited by Barry Keith Grant, University of Texas UP, 2015, pp. 17– 36. Wood, Robin. “ An Introduction to the American Horror Film.” Robin Wood on the Horror Film: Collected Essays and Reviews, edited by Barry Keith Grant, Wayne State UP, 2018a, pp. 73– 110. Wood, Robin. “ Race with the Devil.” Robin Wood on the Horror Film: Collected Essays and Reviews, edited by Barry Keith Grant, Wayne State UP, 2018b, pp. 67– 72. Žižek, Slavoj. Enjoy Your Symptom! Routledge, 1992. Žižek, Slavoj. The Sublime Object of Ideology. Verso, 1989. Early ViewOnline Version of Record before inclusion in an issue ReferencesRelatedInformation