Controversial Book Movies
- HD
The Art of Joy by Goliarda Sapienza: Writing for Emancipation
The Art of Joy by Goliarda Sapienza: Writing for EmancipationMOVIE
Between 1967 and 1976, Italian writer Goliarda Sapienza (1924-76) wrote The Art of Joy, a subversive novel about the dazzling social ascent of a rebel...
- HD
Killer, Trader and Psychopath: The America of Bret Easton Ellis
Killer, Trader and Psychopath: The America of Bret Easton EllisMOVIE
In 1991, American Psycho, the third novel by controversial writer Bret Easton Ellis, provoked heated discussions among critics and readers alike; an e...
- HD
Inside a Nazi Mind: The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell
Inside a Nazi Mind: The Kindly Ones by Jonathan LittellMOVIE
An analysis of The Kindly Ones, Jonathan Littell's controversial novel, published in 2006, which dissects the ruthless mechanisms of the Shoah from th...
- HD
The Emma Bovary Trial
The Emma Bovary TrialMOVIE
On January 31, 1857, the French writer Gustave Flaubert (1821-80) took his place in the dock for contempt of public morality and religion. The accused...
- HD
Roberto Saviano: Writing Under Police Protection
Roberto Saviano: Writing Under Police ProtectionMOVIE
An upbeat and humorous account of the hard life under police protection led by Italian writer Roberto Saviano since the publication in 2006 of Gomorra...
- HD
The Strange Life of Dr. Frankenstein
The Strange Life of Dr. FrankensteinMOVIE
In 1818, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, a powerful and timelessness novel which eternal theme is nothing other than man's...
- HD
Dorian Gray: A Portrait of Oscar Wilde
Dorian Gray: A Portrait of Oscar WildeMOVIE
The Picture of Dorian Gray, the seminal work of Irish writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900),continues to find new readers and inspire artists and creators a...
- HD
The Gulag Archipelago: The Book That Changed Russian History
The Gulag Archipelago: The Book That Changed Russian HistoryMOVIE
The story of Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and his masterpiece, The Gulag Archipelago, published in Paris in...
- HD
Who's Afraid of Lady Chatterley?
Who's Afraid of Lady Chatterley?MOVIE
England, 1960. The Crown sues the publisher Penguin Books in order to ban the publication of Lady Chatterley's Lover, a novel by the British writer D....