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…

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.