Fight Club and Institutional Issues

Fight Club and the 8 Critical Approaches

We need to study Fight Club from 8 different viewpoints or approaches.  These approaches are the same ones that your research project was based on.

• Star and performance
• Genre
• Auteur
• Social and Political Context (messages)
• Institutions
• Gender
• Ethnicity
• Technology  These last two are not useful when studying Fight Club

Shifty Case Study from Naamah Hill

You need to start finding out about the Institution which produced it - Fox (who is ultimately owned by News Corp and Rupert Murdoch... 0f News of the World/Phone hacking fame.....)

Researching Fight Club from Naamah Hill

Here is a copy of the booklet we will be using for this topic - You can be working through it on your own and at times I will set parts as homework.