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What people are saying - Write a reviewReview: The American Cinema of Excess: Extremes of the National Mind on FilmUser Review - GoodreadsMy first thoughts on what I've read so far (several chapters): As the title makes clear, the author examines several films that, he claims, express an excess he sees as characteristic of the American ... Related books
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Common terms and phrasesaggression Albert alienation Amer American Beauty American culture American film American mind American Psycho American sanity Apocalypse autism Bateman Blake Bruce character Christian conspiracy theory critical distance CROW HORSE cultural autism cultural conservatives David deeply defined difficult dream emotional example existential extreme fantasy father fear fiction fight Fight Club figure film film’s finally find first Frannie fucking Greek Hannibal Lecter Heart Huckabees Hebraic Hollywood human ican idea Indians influence insanity Jack Jesus killed Lasch Lecter Lomax London lucid dreaming madness male man’s Matrix McMurphy Medved moral murder narcissism Native American Natural Born Killers nihilism obsession Oedipal officer Old Lodge Skins one’s paranoia perhaps played portrait Pratt protagonist Rambo Rapture reality reflects religion religious says scene secular serial killer sexual Sharon specific story tells term tragedy transgressional transgressive Truman Truman Show turns unique Vanilla Sky violence vision Western Whitman X-Files |
