William Pitt

Just like countless celebrities before her, Jennifer Aniston has had a bumpy ride with the media but has lost control of her media portrayal long ago as she has been violently attacked by the media’s manipulation. The paradox of cultural context is limiting in that her career is formulated upon the inarguable reliance of media, truthful or not. Close reading of the text provides insight into the minds of the manipulative authors of the fourth estate and how they create such intrusive content to…

Fight Club is tangible proof that movies don’t need to smash box office records or take home a multitude of awards to find a place in the public’s memory. Despite not doing exceptionally well at the box office or with the Academy, people still talk about Fight Club with unbridled affection. To test this, just ask someone what the first rule of Fight Club is. All this talk is not without founding, as Fight Club is a mostly entertaining film. This David Fincher movie follows a man identified…

being imperfect. More evidence towards the belief of a perfect couple not existing is the recent split between Hollywood’s golden couple, affectionately named “Brangelina”. The famous twelve-year celebrity relationship consisting of film stars Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie has recently split, due to Jolie filing for divorce. If they were known as the “golden couple”, a perfect couple, how come they are splitting up? The answer may lie in the blossoming of the relationship. Both stars were…

Race and religion have always been historically tied together, especially in California with our history of the mission system as a form of colonization. In Cherrie Moraga’s play Heroes and Saints, she confronts this directly through her characters using various racial projects. In their piece, Racial Formation in the United States, Omi and Winant define a racial project as a “historically situated action that represents and organizes human bodies in a hegemonic structure of power” (Omi and…

Fight Club is a postmodernist novel, which shows the reader how a group of people created a club about dealing with officials and American structure, officials, and androgen pumped men. Fight Club is basically an escape of reality in which whoever joins it cannot tell anyone outside of it. Tyler Durden feels trapped in his schizophrenic mind, along with a woman named Marla Singer, who fakes her diseases to join Fight Club. There is another person who is in the club named Bob Paulson. Bob comes…

"You are not your bank account, you are not the clothes you wear. You are not the contents of your wallet. You are not your bowel cancer. You are not your Grande Latte. You are not the car you drive. You are not your …. khakis." (Fincher 1999) David Fincher’s 1999 film Fight Club is a movie discussing issues in modern masculinity, social stratification and relations of power. By presenting us with a character completely opposite in the extremes of his alter egos. From here he shows us the issues…

Based on Rick’s Café Americain in the city of Casablanca, Morocco in Northern Africa during the 1940’s, Humphrey Bogart plays Rick Blain, owner of the café. An American expatriate owner of a black market nightclub watches his old flame, Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) from Paris walk into his café with her Czech fugitive alongside. The stirring up of emotions between the two was instant when the love story then began to unfold. Bogart’s brisk and suave character completely emotionally resonated viewers as…

Violence is a key part of the film “Fight Club” but it isn’t the centerpiece of the action. The philosophy of the of the film begins to starts with a fight between Tyler and the Narrator with the idea that what could you really know about yourself if you’ve never been in a fight. This is the beginning of a philosophy of changing the world from being a society of consumers who don't know themselves into people who can see the world as it really is. Together Tyler and The Narrator build Fight…

The movie, Fight Club is a highly rated film among critics. It includes a well-known actor like Brad Pitt, unique themes, and plot twists. It includes society’s views in capitalism, consumerism, subjectivity, rules, and conformity. Various scenes within the movies show involve these, and so do the ideas and arguments by modern theorists connect with Fight Club. I will mainly focus on two theorists, Michel Foucault and David Abram. And tell how some of their ideas appear in various scenes in the…

Fieldwork Excursion #4 Activity #1: Gender & Sexuality: Pop and Pulp The magazines I chose to represent list one for this assignment are People and Cosmopolitan and representative of list two are Vibe and Relevant. People magazine is a weekly magazine that showcases celebrity and human-interest stories. Cosmopolitan is a monthly magazine for women that features articles on relationships, sex, beauty, health and more. Vibe is a strictly online magazine that highlights R&B and hip hop artists,…