Barbara Creed is Associate Professor of Cinema Studies in the School of Fine Arts at the University of Melbourne. A well-known film critic and media commentator, she has been the Age film reviewer for 3 years and an ABC (3LO + 3RN) film critic for the past decade. She is the author of The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 1993) and co-editor of both Don't Shoot Darling! Women's Independent Filmmaking in Australia (Greenhouse Press, 1987) and 'Body Trade: Captivity, Cannibalism and

Colonialism in the Pacific' (Pluto + Routledge 2001). She has published widely in international journals such as Screen, New Formations, and Camera Obscura and her writings have been translated into German,

Swedish, Polish, Japanese and Italian.