L3 - Fight 1) - Shallow Consumerism

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

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?

• 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?

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)

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.

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.

“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)

“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.

“I had it all”

Fight Club:

“He recognizes that his freedom is somehow connected to the end of

capitalism”

(John McCullough – 2004)

5 minutes –

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

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