Barbara Creed

Barbara Creed is an Honorary Professor of Film Studies at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 1993); Media Matrix: Sexing the New Reality (Allen & Unwin, 2003); Phallic Panic: Film, Horror & the Primal Uncanny (MUP, 2005); and Darwin's Screens: Evolutionary Aesthetics, Time and Sexual Display in the Cinema (MUP, 2009).

'Natural Born Killers' | The serial killer as folk hero

ABR Arts • 01 October 1994

Mickey and Mallory love to kill. Murder comes naturally to them – it’s all part of a successful day’s work. Bullets fly, bodies drop, and the couple move on as if enjoying a prolonged shopping spree in which the objects consumed just happen to be human lives. Their actions blend in perfectly with a culture that emphasises mass production, mass consumption, repetition, seriality. After all we ... (read more)