Adapting Transgressive Fiction to Film

Sharpening the Critical Edge with a Golden Age

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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This book examines the role that the film and publishing industries play in promoting narratives that preserve and consolidate power among society’s elite, drawing explicit focus on a betrayal of intention where the forces of postmodernism and late capitalism subsume the legitimacy of transgression in adaptations of transgressive fiction.Analyzing the work of authors Bret Easton Ellis, Hubert Selby, Jr., Chuck Palahniuk and Irvine Welsh along with their film adaptations, Christopher Burlingame reveals the sociopolitical and cultural trends between 1996 and 2001 that enabled a Golden Age and saw the rise of a variety of film techniques employed to promote empathy for the characters, thereby re-affirming anti-patriarchal capitalist messaging. However, the failure to preserve this messaging in lieu of reflecting the status quo is evident in seemingly subtle changes to the plot and subplots as well as cinematic techniques that divert attention away from the source material's original message.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-02-05
Mått152 x 230 x 20 mm
Vikt520 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor268
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9798765142387

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About the AuthorSection 1: A Fundamental Introduction to Transgression and Transgressive Fiction’s Dirty Little Secret1. Legitimizing Transgressive Fiction in the Academy2. The Patriarchal Capitalism Problem Meets the History of Transgression3. Patriarchal Capitalism and Adapting for the MainstreamSection 2: How the Nitty Gritty Hits the Cutting Room Floor4. The Reagan Era: Killing Empathy in the Adapting Transgressive Novels5. Losing the Plot with Less Than Zero6. Smoke and Mirrors: The Illusion of Transgression in Last Exit to BrooklynSection 3: The First Rule of Getting it Right Is…: The Golden Age7. Selling Out?: Profiting from the Pissed Off8. A Scottish Play: Trainspotting and the Tracks for Transgressive Adaptation9. You Wake Up At…: The Delayed Success of Fight Club10. American Psycho and Patrick Bateman’s Pop Culture Prowess 11. A Requiem for the End of the Golden Age: Requiem for a DreamSection 4: Post 9/11 Collateral Damage and Looking to the Future of Transgressive Fiction12. Back to the Start: The Regression Beyond the Golden AgeWorks Cited

In Adapting Transgressive Fiction to Film: Sharpening the Critical Edge with a Golden Age, Dr. Christopher Burlingame provides a fascinating new perspective on what has come to be known as Transgressive Fiction. Burlingame delivers an insightful study of the film adaptations of several key transgressive texts here. By developing a historical framework in which to explore these film adaptations in distinct historical contexts, Burlingame traces how various power structures have produced, co-opted, and tried to tame classic works of Transgressive Fiction. And it makes a case for the relevance of this story for contemporary political phenomena. This savvy book provides thought-provoking insight into how we got here and where we might be going.