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Adapting transgressive fiction to film : sharpening the critical edge with a golden age / by Christopher Burlingame.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burlingame, Christopher, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Experimental fiction, American--History and criticism.
- Experimental fiction, American.
- Experimental films--History and criticism.
- Experimental films.
- Literature and society--United States--History--20th century.
- Literature and society.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.
- System Details:
- text file rdaft
- Summary:
- This book examines the role that the film and publishing industries play in promoting narratives that preserve and consolidate power among society's elite.
- Contents:
- About the Author Section 1: A Fundamental Introduction to Transgression and Transgressive Fiction’s Dirty Little Secret 1. Legitimizing Transgressive Fiction in the Academy 2. The Patriarchal Capitalism Problem Meets the History of Transgression 3. Patriarchal Capitalism and Adapting for the Mainstream Section 2: How the Nitty Gritty Hits the Cutting Room Floor 4. The Reagan Era: Killing Empathy in the Adapting Transgressive Novels 5. Losing the Plot with Less Than Zero 6. Smoke and Mirrors: The Illusion of Transgression in Last Exit to Brooklyn Section 3: The First Rule of Getting it Right Is…: The Golden Age 7. Selling Out?: Profiting from the Pissed Off 8. A Scottish Play: Trainspotting and the Tracks for Transgressive Adaptation 9. You Wake Up At…: The Delayed Success of Fight Club 10. American Psycho and Patrick Bateman’s Pop Culture Prowess 11. A Requiem for the End of the Golden Age: Requiem for a Dream Section 4: Post 9/11 Collateral Damage and Looking to the Future of Transgressive Fiction 12. Back to the Start: The Regression Beyond the Golden Age Works Cited
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9798765142417
- 9798765142370
- OCLC:
- 1547899444
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