Un-American Psycho
Brian De Palma and the Political Invisible
Distributed for Intellect Ltd
240 pages
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40 halftones
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7 x 9
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© 2012
Brian De Palma is perhaps best known as the director behind the gangster classic Scarface. Yet as ingrained as Scarface is in American popular culture, it is but one of a sizeable number of controversial films—many of which are consistently misread or ignored—directed by De Palma over his more than four-decade career.
In Un-American Psycho, Chris Dumas places De Palma’s body of work in dialogue with the works of other provocative filmmakers, including Alfred Hitchcock, Jean-Luc Godard, and Francis Ford Coppola with the aim of providing a broader understanding of the narrative, stylistic, and political gestures that characterize De Palma’s filmmaking. De Palma’s films engage with a wide range of issues surrounding American political and social culture, and this volume offers a rethinking of the received wisdom on his work.
John Semley | A.V. Club
Un-American Psycho is organized in large part around salvaging the reputation of Brian De Palma, a filmmaker whose name is commonly—and usually negatively—mentioned in the same breath as Hitchcock’s. . . . Debut author Chris Dumas is giving De Palma his due. And in so doing, he’s arming the next generation of De Palma defenders with some seriously heavy artillery.
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