American Psycho

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Polan, Dana; Foster, Hal (1984). "The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture" (PDF). New German Critique (33): 264–269. doi: 10.2307/488367. ISSN 0094-033X. JSTOR 488367. It’s an intense book and it could leave you feeling rather shit. It affected me quite strongly, which bespeaks the power of this narrative. It all comes down to reading preference for me. Half a book of recycled conversation about fashion, society, tanning, etc. is torture for people like me who could not give a shit about that stuff. I hate wasting my time by reading about stuff I don't want to read about, satire or not. Overkill is still overkill, especially when you see the same catch-phrases (hardbody, gazelleskin, etc.) used dozens of times in the book, and you're sort of sad that you're not playing a drinking game to combat some of the repetitiveness. By the time I got to the chapter on detailing Whitney Houston's career, I was downright tired of reading scene after scene of tedious information. In the “American Psycho”, B.E.Ellis refers to various stylistic means such as modality. Analysis of the modal semantics of the novel’s text fragments showed that it is based on a functional assessment of the reflection of reality. Sometimes it creates an illusiveness of everything that happens. Thus, presenting the reader the described events in the categories of “reality/non-reality”, where the protagonist is between two worlds. There is the author's desire to form an image of the protagonist with signs of a split personality.

I've recently learned that before its release, 31 publishers worldwide wanted nothing to do with the novel due to its gory, disturbing, misogynistic content. While I can understand 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐏𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐨 won't be everyone's cup of tea, one must remember that the point of satire is to exaggerate, so if you decide to venture into the wild mind of Bateman/Ellis, I would suggest not to do it with a straight face, as it is a social criticism, and a very well written one. So 𝘢𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦, 𝘺𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦, and remember, 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘵. Mary: Yes! Gideon Ponte, the production designer, found it. We were looking for something 1980s and minimalist. That was very important. I’m very big into typography. Love typography. It’s very important when you’re doing a period film – that all the typography has to be of the period. If you get the typography wrong, it’s like getting the hairstyles wrong. Kelly, Alison (June 27, 2010). "Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on June 30, 2010 . Retrieved July 28, 2010. Bret Easton Ellis talks film adaptations at SCAD". Creative Loafing. Archived from the original on June 24, 2010 . Retrieved June 19, 2010. Later, Bateman revisits Paul Owen's apartment, where he had earlier killed and mutilated two prostitutes, carrying a surgical mask in anticipation of the decomposing bodies he expects to encounter. He enters the perfectly clean, refurbished apartment, however, filled with strong-smelling flowers meant, perhaps, to conceal a bad odor. The real estate agent, who sees his surgical mask, fools him into stating he was attending the apartment viewing because he "saw an ad in the Times" (when in fact there was no such advertisement). She tells him to leave and never return.

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the girls pause and give us the once over, i imagine, to gauge if we're the kinda guys to get violent or to let 'em just walk out with jason's money. they're professionals and know their shit. they walk out. Mary: No. No! This was my idea for the title sequence, and we didn’t have any others. John Cale scored it afterwards and the music obviously helps.

Valjak, Domagoj (March 8, 2017). "Bret Easton Ellis's novel "American Psycho" is sold shrink-wrapped in Australian bookstores to prevent minors from reading it". The Vintage News . Retrieved January 25, 2022.

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American Psycho Author Bret Easton Ellis: In Conversation". FORA.tv. Archived from the original on October 16, 2011 . Retrieved February 15, 2012. Thompson, John Bryan (November 2020). "Subtle Sign Posts: Uncovering Moral Meaning in Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho" (PDF)– via Harvard Library. {{ cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= ( help)

Part of me wanted to spoiler-tag a couple of the more gruesome scenes, just to give readers who were curious something to look at. But I'm not giving anyone any ideas. O.o As far as I can tell, there are two ways to interpret this book. The first is as a hysterically funny, incredibly dark satire on the excess, greed and materialism of rich young Americans in the late 1980s. The second is as a hideously misogynist extended fantasy about the abuse, torture and murder of women. It's the second interpretation that raises issues for me. I am a feminist, and proud to say so; yet I absolutely loved this book. So is it possible to be a feminist and still enjoy American Psycho? Parrish, R. B. (2009) The Duke Lacrosse Case: A Documentary History and Analysis of the Modern Scottsboro, pp. 159-61; ISBN 1-4392-3590-2. Speech euphemisms are expressed in increased use of taboo vocabulary. Tabooed vocabulary is understood as expressive, evaluative and expressive vocabulary that has historically emerged as a violation of taboo, which includes vulgarisms (simple words – rough words or expressions that are outside the scope of literary vocabulary), swear words (curses), invectives, obscene vocabulary ( Merriam-Webster's Dictionary and Thesaurus, 2014).

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Transgression implies a shift of boundaries between objects and values. The object goes beyond its own boundaries and makes a breakthrough into reality ( Faritov, 2016). Transgression reflects the experience of denial and going beyond the boundaries of socio-cultural rules. It is connected with the transformation, which is quite emotionally experienced by a person but helps to understand the essence of what exactly is happening ( Iakovleva, 2019). The analysis of the novel “American Psycho” made it possible to reveal the minimalism and dynamism of writing, which we define, on the one hand, as the idiosyncrasy of the writer B.E.Ellis, on the other hand, as a characteristic style of transgressive fiction. We have established that this style of presentation is intended to focus the readers' attention on the very essence of the actions described, to examine the root of immorality, depravity, and immorality of characters. All of the above points to the presence of a research character in transgressive fiction, allowing both writer and reader to penetrate into the atmosphere of topics tabooed by society. Krause, Jennifer (February 16, 2016). "The Killing Cure: Popular Culture and Postmodern Madness inOnde andará Dulce Veiga?andAmerican Psycho". Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction. 57 (2): 166–177. doi: 10.1080/00111619.2015.1019409. ISSN 0011-1619. S2CID 147597210. Heise, Thomas (2011). " American Psycho: Neoliberal Fantasies and the Death of Downtown". Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory. 67 (1): 135–160. doi: 10.1353/arq.2011.0001. ISSN 1558-9595. S2CID 143076157. Earlier, there was so much of Bethany’s blood pooled on the floor that I could make out my reflection in it while I reached for one of my cordless phones, and I watched myself make a haircut appointment at Gio’s.