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Fight Club -The Postmodern Dilemma Of Manhood and Postmodernism and Violence

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Fight Club and the Postmodern Dilemma of Manhood


Postmodernism and Violence

Two essays that may prove helpful when writing your essay. Click on images for links.

Essay

Discuss two or more media texts that you would define as ‘postmodern’ and explain why you
would give them this label. Cover at least two media in your answer.

Use the resources that I have posted connected to Fight Club, Memento and Pulp Fiction. You don't have to refer to all the films, you can focus on one of them. Make sure that you also refer to your individual work on postmodern music. That way you will have covered two types of media.

Fight Club trailer

Fight Club is advertised as a heart-racing thrill ride. Is this different to the reality of the film itself? The voiceover describes the narrator as "tired of his job, sick of his stuff, looking for something new. But he wasn't ready for what he found." The trailer accentuates the action elements of the film. In reality the film subverts the generic conventions of an action film and is something a lot darker and more disturbing.

Fight Club: a postmodern consumer fable

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Some points to consider when watching the film today:

In what ways can Fight Club be considered a postmodern text?

* Identify the postmodern aspects of the text.
* Who (audience types) would categorise this film as postmodern?
* What other readings of the text could one make?

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In what ways can Fight Club be considered a postmodern text?

• Identify the postmodern aspects of the text.
• Who (audience types) would categorise this film as postmodern?
• What other readings of the text could one make?

Fight Club trailer