Passion for the Real Through Snuff Film in Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho

Yazıcıoğlu S.

BRITISH AND AMERICAN STUDIES, cilt.XVII, ss.61-68, 2011 (ESCI)

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: XVII
  • Basım Tarihi: 2011
  • Dergi Adı: BRITISH AND AMERICAN STUDIES
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Scopus, MLA - Modern Language Association Database, Directory of Open Access Journals
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.61-68
  • İstanbul Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Alain Badiou defines the 20th century in terms of “the passion for the real”. The aim of this paper is to discuss how the term is materialized through the use of snuff film in Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho, and how snuff film functions as a narrative apparatus in the novel.