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The relationship between Brian De Palma and the discipline of film studies is so unendingly fascinating that Chris Dumas made it the primary subject of his 2012 monograph, Un-American Psycho: Brian De Palma and the Political Invisible. 1 In this book, De Palma is positioned as an emblematic and informative figure in film culture, too frequently used as a scapegoat for the proliferation of "bad objects"-in his case, images of violence, misogyny, and excess, to name a few. If he is not accused of being directly symptomatic of these manifestations, De Palma is usually used as a springboard from which to discuss them, in ways that often do his films something of a disservice. Dumas writes: After the 1980 release of Dressed to Kill, De Palma symbolized-and, even now, continues to symbolize for many (if no longer the majority) of film academics, as well as mainstream film critics, in the United States-a certain excessiveness, a certain ferocity, a certain tastelessness that is too offensive not to identify, but also too obvious to discuss in any depth. 2 Thus, this article is not dealing with a new subject per say, but rather with one that has perhaps received some unfair treatment. Inde

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Author

Joshua Schulze

Publisher

Informa UK Limited

Published

2019

Language

EN

Field

Economics, Econometrics and Finance (Social Sciences)