Entrance Activity

Fight Club: “The central character is torn between t______m and t______e”

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Ebbert (19__) states “The whole movie is about g__s afraid of l____g their c____es”

• Is Marla a threat to the survival of masculinity in this text?

• Is ‘Jack’ afraid of Marla?

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The film is iconoclastic.

In other words, its aim is to destroy some of our most cherished beliefs – to turn our ideas about society on its

head• WHAT are some of those beliefs that we cherish?• WHO represents David Fincher’s stylistic choices to destroy some our most

cherished beliefs?

YOU MUST give an example of something Tyler says that destroys something we cherish in the text.

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Friday 17th April 2015

FM4: Varieties of Film Experience – Issues and Debates

Section C: Single Film – Close Critical Study

(30 Marks)

Why?

Aims & Objectives

• YOU WILL establish HOW an ideology and critical approach you need to know for the exam applies to the text.

• YOU WILL develop an understanding Jack & Tyler

• Gender representation will be explored in the lesson.

• 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.

Tyler epitomises the adolescent fantasy –

HOW?

“Fights will go on as long as they have to”

Fight Club “reasserts a masculine identity threatened by the feminization of American culture” (Suzanne Clark – 2003)

• Are men fighting against more than the “feminization of American culture” (Suzanne Clark – 2003)?

• “As long as they have to” – HOW will it end?

• Diana Saco – ‘Female Gaze’ – Tyler is an object of Homoerotic desire.

• “It's macho porn -- the sex movie Hollywood has been moving towards for years, in which eroticism between the sexes is replaced by all-guy locker-room fights.” (Roger Ebert – 1999)

Conforming to the Oedipus complex (Sigmund Freud) Jack only becomes a mature ‘man’ when he rejects/kills his father figure (Tyler) – by shooting himself in the mouth.

Produce a 1 Page overview of how ‘critical and review writing’ develop your understanding of the film.

Homework

• Go to the Section C Blog page and complete some Section C Revision

• Research how Misogyny is a key theme in the text.

• Revise for an upcoming past paper

Due: Next Lesson