Fight Club Masculinity

This article takes the idea that masculinity and its large part of marginalization of men to task by analyzing the film Fight Club, and uses it as a foil against people today who try to pin larger issues of masculinity on urban life. Authors Aitken and Craine believe Flight Club can be viewed as alienated men confronting their selves through radical pranks to avoid larger social tensions. The article was intriguing because of its focus on how men are simultaneously playful and despairing, they are all alienated and the supplier of order. It demonstrates how Fincher's movie engages these metaphors of marginalization and offers an opportunity to change both masculinity and culture.

For centuries people have been noted to be deeply intrigued by stories of psychological trauma, especially those of schizophrenia. Struggles that involve hallucinations, imagined voices, and blurred realities make big screen films and books top sellers. The authors of this article focus on how these struggles are utilized in film and literature, and how schizophrenia hits the spot light. It overviews the exposure and how it has not come without inherent limitations. In this paper, the authors trace both the successes and shortfalls of these this struggle in the film Fight Club. It’s interesting to read about a confusing disorder and how film, like Fight Club, keep us …show more content…
Author Matt Jordan argues that Heaney knowingly casts a test of manhood while Palahniuk dramatizes a situation with crisis to find masculinity. This article was interesting to read because one learns about Fight Club's take on its protagonist's and the attempt to resolve this crisis and how it is very ironic. To compare these films/novels makes for an interesting point of view on manhood and where masculinity or femininity stands in ones overall thought