Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, Catholic University Eichstatt-Ingolstadt, language: English, abstract: "I'm always shocked when people want to make movies out of my books. ...] They have cinematic scenes, they have a lot of dialogue, but often they don't have that narrative momentum a movie needs" (Shulman, par. 12), said Bret Easton Ellis, the author of the novel American Psycho, in an interview about movie adaptations of his books. Ellis wrote a total of seven novels and became one of the most famous authors of postmodern American...