The Monstrous Woman: Julia Ducournau and Feminist Counter-Cinema

This article focuses on analyzing how Julia Ducournau’s films fall into the feminist counter-cinema school, challenging notions of gender and subverting common depictions of women through the lens of art-horror film and the body horror genre. Filmic aspects that are analyzed in this article are character development, themes, and motifs that cast a feminist-coded lens over the narrative; most importantly, the analysis examines the thematic significance of physical transformations, violent birth, generational trauma, and the portrayal of sexuality and violence.