Consumerism and Madness in Mary Harron’s American Psycho
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Situated in a different watershed era, in the booming 1980s, the film American Psycho focuses on the negative effects of consumerism in the milieu of the so-called "yuppies". This article traces the debilitating pressure to conform, and the resulting superficiality that drive the protagonist of the movie to murder. Here, the focus lies on the male psyche, as "engaging in commodified recreational activities started to lose its stigma as being a women’s domain", and men began to be specifically targeted as consumers in the second half of the 19th century.
Source: Gender forum
Author: Asanova, Svetlana
Language: English
Topic: Cinema History and Criticism
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W293254532