- The "everyman" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everyman Children of Men (2006) and 28 Days Later (2002) also feature 'everyman' characters. What makes the narrator in Fight Club an everyman?
- The "coming of age film" - see influential films: Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and The Graduate (1967). http://www.allmovie.com/subgenre/coming-of-age-d959 http://www.edward-norton.org/fc/articles/filmcom.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebel_Without_a_Cause http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Graduate Is Fight Club a coming of age film?
- The "homoerotic" film http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoerotic see Top Gun (1986), Chariots of Fire (1981), Eastern Promises (2007) for examples of male relationships critics have described as homoerotic. What examples of homoeroticism can you find within Fight Club? (This would link well with masculinity.)
- Consumerism and the power of advertising http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumerism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpretations_of_Fight_Club http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/sociology/research/publications/papers/diken-laustsen-enjoy-your-fight.pdf http://www.domspe.org/fight_club/soc_fightclub3.html http://www.academia.edu/193320/Diagnosing_Chuck_Palahniuks_Fight_Club http://journalism.uoregon.edu/~cbybee/j388/ideological.html http://writing.colostate.edu/gallery/talkingback/issue1/briggs.htm http://voices.yahoo.com/the-movie-fight-club-uses-aggression-masculinity-1833384.html?cat=40 http://masonmediacrit.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/consumed-by-consumerism-narrative.html http://writing.colostate.edu/gallery/talkingback/issue1/briggs.htm http://www.academia.edu/3789929/Cults_Consumerism_and_the_Construction_of_Self_Exploring_the_Religious_within_Fight_Club What part does consumerism play within Fight Club? (You can link this to the corporation section.)
- Corporate America and economic globalisation. http://www.globalissues.org/issue/50/corporations http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/briefings/problem_with_corporations.pd What does the film say about corporations?
- Dissociative personality disorder / depersonalisation disorder. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociative_identity_disorder http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depersonalization_disorder Can these conditions be seen in the narrator, and if so, when? (Link this to Freud and also 'states of consciousness'.)
- Freud: the Id, ego and super-ego http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freud#Id.2C_ego_and_super-ego http://www.mediationsjournal.org/articles/the-anti-anti-oedipus http://voices.yahoo.com/pyschoanalysis-fight-club-236007.html?cat=9 http://www.scribd.com/doc/93254/A-Mind-Struggle-Fight-Club http://www.personal.psu.edu/kdm5182/blogs/novel_psychology/2010/02/revisiting-fight-club.html http://www.burcu-arikan.com/?page_id=142 http://chuckpalahniuk.net/files/papers/fight-for-self-marc-price.pdf How can this psychological approach be applied to Fight Club?
- Nietzsche and the "ubermensch" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nietzche#.C3.9Cbermensch http://www.academia.edu/193320/Diagnosing_Chuck_Palahniuks_Fight_Club Is Nietzsche's idea of the ubermensch a valid critical approach, and if so why? (It's a good idea to do Nietzsche in conjunction with a fascist approach and you could include re-education as well.)
- Nihilism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihilism http://axisofaccess.blogspot.co.uk/2008/03/fight-club-and-nihilism.html Where in the film is a nihilistic attitude represented?
- Buddhism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism See here for this approach: http://www.unomaha.edu/jrf/vol11no2/ReedFightClub.htm
- Nazism / fascism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology/papers/diken-laustsen-enjoy-your-fight.pdf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpretations_of_Fight_Club http://www.academia.edu/193320/Diagnosing_Chuck_Palahniuks_Fight_Club http://www.boundless.org/2005/articles/a0000190.cfm http://newhistories.group.shef.ac.uk/wordpress/wordpress/?p=2412 What elements of fascist ideology, behaviour, clothing etc. can be seen in Fight Club? Is it a Nazi or fascist film?
- Marxist / anti-capitalist http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxist#Criticism_of_capitalism http://www.religiousthought.com/papers/durdenmarxist.pdf http://taftese.tripod.com/other/fightclub.html http://www.nd.edu/~olizardo/papers/jcr-fight-club.pdf http://scottsommers.wordpress.com/what-i-think-about-the-story-of-fight-club/ http://pmcconachie.typepad.com/blog/2010/05/socrates-marx-and-durden-philosophical-fight-club.html http://pcasacas.org/SiPC/29.1/29.1%20Bishop.pdf http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology/papers/diken-laustsen-enjoy-your-fight.pdf http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~ortegon/portfolio/documents/Ortegon_FightClub_Thesis.pdf http://www.domspe.org/fight_club/soc_fightclub3.html http://www.academia.edu/193320/Diagnosing_Chuck_Palahniuks_Fight_Club http://journalism.uoregon.edu/~cbybee/j388/ideological.html http://www.mediationsjournal.org/articles/the-anti-anti-oedipus
- "Re-education" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainwashing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reeducation_camp How important is re-education or brainwashing in Fight Club? (Can be linked to historical groups such as the SS, Khymer Rouge etc.)
- Emasculation / masculinity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masculinity (read 'Masculinity in crisis') http://2013.neutralmagazine.com/article/fight-club-and-masculinity/ http://www.thefilmjournal.com/issue8/fightclub.html http://www.criticism.com/md/fightclub.html http://www.domspe.org/fight_club/soc_fightclub3.html http://www.livereal.com/movies/fight_club.htm http://pmc.iath.virginia.edu/text-only/issue.503/13.3friday.txt http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/sociology/research/publications/papers/diken-laustsen-enjoy-your-fight.pdf http://www.academia.edu/3789929/Cults_Consumerism_and_the_Construction_of_Self_Exploring_the_Religious_within_Fight_Club How and why are men 'emasculated' in Fight Club? What actions reverse the trend? Do you think their behaviour makes them more manly?
- 'Retro-noir' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpretations_of_Fight_Club
- 'Slumming trauma' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpretations_of_Fight_Club
- 'States of consciousness' (psychological approach) http://old.disinfo.com/archive/pages/article/id1497/pg1/index.html
- http://metaphilm.com/index.php/search/results/1adb2f1e7b15f41299d57bc1c34e094d/
- Love story http://www.streetdirectory.com/travel_guide/13377/entertainment/fight_club_a_classic_love_story.html http://www.rogerebert.com/scanners/fight-club-at-ten-a-love-story http://filmschoolrejects.com/features/the-stretch-find-true-love-in-fight-club.php
- Misogynistic http://ilovethatfilm.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/fight-club-feminism-and-misogyny-a2.html
- Anti-feminist
Wednesday, 28 November 2012
Fight Club - Critical Approaches: themes, ideas, interpretations
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