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Before I discuss this film, I want to defend the importance of the popular
political film (and I would strongly argue that American Psycho is one of the
most radical political films ever to come out of Hollywood as I will show in this
paper). Indeed, I would argue that the progressive (and subversive) potential of
popular cinema in general is substantial. I have argued elsewhere that popular
films in particular are important as a first step towards breaking free of the
commodified and reified chains that keep mass audiences in place.[1] One cannot
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