Quote:
"American Psycho is much more than a translation of a story from one medium into another. It is a feminist reinterpretation that uses the specific characteristics of film as an audio-visual medium to dissect the story's content and wider social significance. The film is an example of gendered metafiction and uses its experimental dissection of the boundary between fiction and non-fiction to interrogate cultural representations of violent masculinity."
-- Coco d'Hont

Source:
d'Hont, Coco. "'I Like to Dissect Girls': Mary Harron's American Psycho as Gendered Metafiction." In ReFocus: The Films of Mary Harron, edited by Kyle Barrett. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022. (p. 86)