Page to Screen: The Cinematic Arrangement of the Cloud Atlas Sextet

With its unconventional structure, sprawling cast of characters, and a diverse mix of genres from historical drama to science fiction, David Mitchell’s Man Booker-shortlisted novel Cloud Atlas is one that even the author considered ‘unfilmable’. Prime adaptation material, then, for the Wachowskis – a writer-director duo perhaps defined more than anything else by the unerring […]

Page to Screen: American Psycho’s Subversion of Violence

A how-to manual on the torture and dismemberment of women. That’s how one activist described Brett Easton Ellis’ American Psycho, released in the midst of great controversy in 1991. Needless to say, she wasn’t a fan. And she wasn’t alone: feminist groups were up in arms over the book’s graphic depiction of violence against women. […]