Entrance Activity

Robert Bly ‘Iron John’ (1992) ideology – Male frustration and anger at society –

“The anguish of soft men” and how “part of their grief rose out of remoteness from their fathers”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpc2-UWHzXw

YOU MUST write down the ideology above and establish HOW this is represented in the scene you’re about to watch.

Extension – YOU COULD refer to other examples from the text that establish “the anguish of soft men”

Title:‘Fight Club’ – Section C Introduction

Film Review

Tuesday 14th April 2015

FM4: Varieties of Film Experience – Issues and Debates

Section C: Single Film – Close Critical Study

(30 Marks)

Why?

Aims & Objectives

• YOU WILL re-cap HOW an ideology you need to know for the exam applies to the text.

• YOU WILL develop an understanding of the Single Film Case Study and it’s many complex ideologies and approaches.

• YOU WILL analyse a key scene from the text.

• Review the learning.

AO1

Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of film as an audio-visual form of creative expression together and

AO2 Apply knowledge and understanding, including some of the common critical approaches that characterise the subject, when exploring and analysing films.

Doppelgänger

According to Homer, man has dualistic existence, the one in his visible appearance, the other in his invisible image which becomes free only after death – this, and no other, is his soul. In animate man there dwells as a strange guest a more feeble Double – his other Self in the form of his Psyche – whose kingdom is the world of dreams. When the conscious self sleeps, the Double works and watches1.

"You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else".

Doppelgänger

• WHAT else does Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) represent to the spectator?

• HOW does he “contrast” with ‘The Narrator’ (Edward Norton)?

FEEDBACK

What have you learnt?

YOU MUST list some of the issues surrounding this Case Study text that you have covered today.

Homework• Watch the film in it’s entirety

• YOU WILL be given an A3 Analysis sheet to complete over the Holidays – Bring this to the screening on the first Monday back after Easter.

• Complete some research into the text and further reading by going to the Section C Blog Page.

Due: After Easter – Monday 13th April