'Fight Club'

1. Fight Club is “..a provocative anti-capitalist cultural artifact, one which articulates a
widely resonant and resistant structure of feeling” (John McCullough – 2004)

2. Fight Club is “..a provocative anti-capitalist cultural
artifact, one which articulates a widely resonant
and resistant structure of feeling” (John
McCullough – 2004)
• When you “peel away” the banana (film) what does it reveal to the
spectator?
• What’s the biggest surprise in the text?
• Who is resistant and to what?

3. • What’s the biggest surprise in the text?
• Who is resistant and to what?
YOU MUST visit the FM4 – Section C Blog Page and watch the video to establish x2
examples of WHERE Tyler could be defined as the resistant force in this text?

4. Title:
‘Fight Club’ –
Jack battling shallow consumerism
Fight 1)
Wednesday 15th April 2015
FM4:
Varieties of Film Experience – Issues and Debates
Section C:
Single Film – Close Critical Study
(30 Marks)

5. Why?
Aims & Objectives
• YOU WILL establish HOW an
ideology you need to know for the
exam applies to the text.
• YOU WILL develop an
understanding of how a critical
review can inform your
udnerstanding of 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.

6. Entrance Activity
YOU MUST consider the connotations behind the non-diegetic verbal code “slave”
Extension – YOU COULD refer to other examples from the text that establish ‘The Narrators’
shallow consumerism.

7. “For 6 months, I couldn’t sleep”
Fight Club:
“The central character is torn between tedium and torture”
(John McCullough – 2004)
“Everything is a copy, of a copy, of a copy…”
YOU MUST pair up and establish WHERE and/or HOW “Tedium and torture” is
represented in this text and YOU SHOULD support your evaluation with evidence
from the text.
Extension – YOU COULD research Psychoanalysis (Sigmund Freud) ‘further
informs your thinking of the film’ (WJEC)

8. “When you have insomnia, you're never really
asleep... and you're never really awake.” –
“Who you were in Fight Club is not who you were in the rest of the world”.
Psycho-analysis (Sigmund Freud)
Vs.

9. “I had it all”
Fight Club:
“He recognizes that his freedom is somehow
connected to the end of capitalism”
(John McCullough – 2004)

10. 5 minutes –
PEA Paragraph to prove what you have learnt about a critical approach to
the your close study film.

11. Homework
• Go to the Section C Blog page and complete
some Section C Revision
• Research a Critical Review on the Page that is
associated with shallow consumerism
Due: Next Lesson