Barbara Creed | |
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Born | 30 September 1943 |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Monash University La Trobe University |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Cinema studies |
Institutions | University of Melbourne |
Barbara Creed FAHA (born 30 September 1943) is a professor of cinema studies in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of six books on gender, feminist film theory, and the horror genre.[1] Creed is a graduate of Monash and La Trobe universities[2] where she completed doctoral research using the framework of psychoanalysis and feminist theory to examine horror films. She is known for her cultural criticism.