Excerpt from the opening of the script for American Psycho (2000), written by Mary Harron and Guinevere Turner Yeah, he could have been nicer but certainly didn't scream "SERIAL KILLER".................but this DID ! You complete jerk”. Anne smiles, relieved. “You're funny” ( Ellis, 1991, p. 229). – “I snarl at her, “You’re a fool. I can’t cope with this” ( Ellis, 1991, p. 197). Slang expressions are a feature of transgressive fiction, along with obscene vocabulary. Characters in the novel use slang expressions during small talk with colleagues: “This is really super. How'd a nitwit like you get so tasteful?” ( Ellis, 1991, p. 105). Another example of slang use: “Now – with the other hand I pull out my gazelle skin wallet – we would like to enjoy some fine Cuban cigars afterwards and we don't want to be bothered by some loutish” ( Ellis, 1991, p. 111). The French postmodern philosopher J.Beaudriard in his philosophical work “Consumer Society” sees consumption as “a chain psychological reaction aimed at satisfying needs”. According to Beaudriard, ( 2006) “a consumer society is a self-deception, where it is impossible to find real feelings and an authentic culture” (p. 27).

we're all wondering what it is, exactly, she is on that he wants her off of. and if we should go in there and see if everything's ok. and then again: I thought that the first half of the book was nothing short of BRILLIANT as an indictment of the period. However, that is not where the book ends and it's the second half of the book that, while equally well written, was arguably the most disturbing writing I've ever read. Ellis slyly balances the relative passion with which Bateman might discuss Huey Lewis in one chapter with a dispassionate yet detailed and horrific play-by-play of rape and dismemberment in the next. Beneath the character's prosperous appearance is mostly hiding a nature that deforms itself, its life, and the lives of those around it. As a result, the characters of transgressive fiction are both cynical and unhappy. Besides, they often fall into extreme reflections and deliberately commit illogical, thoughtless acts. The purpose of such deviant behaviour is to reach a state where spiritual suffering is transformed into clarity, where self-destruction gives a chance for enlightenment. Demonstrating the behavior of characters in which the notions between allowed and forbidden are violated, writers use various stylistic and linguistic means, studying the regularities of their functioning, it is possible to reveal the stylistic specificity of transgressive fiction in general. Research Questions paul bryant recently reviewed/revised his review of this book (hi, paul bryant!) and i read it and the dozens of intelligent remarks his negative review sparked, both pro and anti-this book, and there isn't anything i can add to the discussion that hasn't already been said by people far wiser than little old me, but because the review made me think about this book, i decided to add my two cents. and that's all it is - just some thoughts about a book i haven't read in years, but remember really liking and feel, for some reason, compelled to defend.

The novel maintains a high level of ambiguity through mistaken identity and contradictions that introduce the possibility that Bateman is an unreliable narrator. Marlene: Yes. So I remember doing storyboards because that’s how I always worked. But I have no artifact from that. i don't think bret easton ellis is a great writer, but i think with this one, he accidentally wrote a great book.or at least effective. can i call it effective? any book that can cause such polarized reactions from readers is wonderful in my eyes.

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. There’s one other influence. When I was a teenager, I saw this film by Claude Chabrol called Le Boucher. There’s a scene where teachers bring kids on a picnic and there’s a child with a white roll, white fresh bread, and these drops of red splashing on this white roll. It turns out that it’s blood dripping from a body that’s hidden in the hill above. Marlene: The way the imagery built a total emotional ecosystem before you even got into the film, I thought that was really masterful. It was like a beacon of change. Se7en marked a switch from analog to digital… even though it’s still very filmic. There was something extremely contemporary about it at that moment.

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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? I wanted to make sure I said that because, despite my cautions above, this is a book I will recommend provided people understand the level of gut-wrenching depictions in the novel. It's not a book to read for pleasure and it is not a book I believe I will ever open again. However, I do believe that this is an IMPORTANT work and will be remembered as one of the seminal novels written about the 1980’s. Faritov, V.T. (2016). The philosophical aspects of the work of M. Bakhtin: transgression ontology. Voprosy filosofii, 12, 140-149.

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. We are marginally different, but the rage that is in me is in you. Maybe you haven’t tapped into it yet, but you may when you least expect it. I do understand that we may see different things in clouds, for instance. ”When we look up at the clouds she sees an island, a puppy dog, Alaska, a tulip. I see, but don’t tell her, a Gucci money clip, an ax, a woman cut in two, a large puffy white puddle of blood that spreads across the sky, dripping over the city, onto Manhattan.” Speaking of excessive...let's get to the second half of the book, otherwise known as a precursor (no, not really) to the show 1,000 Ways to Die. Viagas, Robert (June 5, 2016). "American Psycho Ends Broadway Run Today". Playbill . Retrieved December 11, 2018. Since B.E.Ellis writes about the consumer society, the novel has an intertextuality device, which includes the names of songs, books, films, musical groups. Mainly the writer uses names of brands in a text: Calvin Klein, Oscar de la Renta, Armani, Karl Lagerfeld, Christian Louboutin, Hermes, Yves Saint Laurent ( Ellis, 1991). The device of an intertextuality can represent a conscious and openly underlined meaning element, and it can also be semi-open and unintentional ( Ryabukha & Troshina, 2018). In the “American psycho” the usage of an intertextuality is intentional as the author underlines the character's dependence on total consumption.Avdonina, N. S., & Fokina, I.A. (2017). Principles and Genre Diversity of Literary Journalism. Theoretical and practical issues of journalism, 6(4), 528-540. DOI: Marlene:I can’t remember if I typeset it with an old fashioned typesetter and had it output to negative film for the animator or if I set the type on a computer. American Psycho existed right on that cusp between the analog and the digital. As much as I disliked reading this, I am not blinded by hatred enough to not realise that people like this exist amongst faces we see every day. It put me into a depressing mood but was the only aspect of this book I found unsettlingly interesting. While submerging into the story, I often forgot that good people do exist in this world and wondered, just how many of those "good" men play saints while thinking of me as a useless, good for nothing "hardbody"? 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). Mary: Yeah! It’s not digital. We may have fiddled with them, coloured them, but it was done in the studio, in camera. We were shooting on film and you tried to get everything in camera. We had a top food stylist and that was great because it was all about getting that beautiful look.