This morning I was sitting in my office listening to the soundtrack of The Hours by Philip Glass and feeling really really depressed. Then I told myself let us have something exciting, something visceral,, intense, violent and fun (?), and I switched to the soundtrack of Fight Club (uncousicously) without knowing actually this could be a great example of male madness in metropolis. Could this be the demonstration of man in crisis in the city?
Then, here we go again.
WOOLF SUICIDE FROM THE HOURS：
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOV-PSYcacI
two clips:
edited trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyDie9r0soo
eight rules of the Club:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agi8PUmlAKUThe first rule of Fight Club is - you do not talk about Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is - you DO NOT talk about Fight Club. Third rule of Fight Club, someone yells Stop!, goes limp, taps out, the fight is over. Fourth rule, only two guys to a fight. Fifth rule, one fight at a time, fellas. Sixth rule, no shirt, no shoes. Seventh rule, fights will go on as long as they have to. And the eighth and final rule, if this is your first night at Fight Club, you have to fight.
http://arts.anu.edu.au/history/hist2213/Fight%20Club.htm
Articles on Fight Club
Scholarly engagements with Fight Club, whether the novel or film, have been surprisingly limited. The items marked with an asterisk below I consider the most useful, though each is limited in one respect or other. Other articles are from film and popular magazines, and include reviews and interviews. Where possible I have added links to the articles themselves. More items will be added soon!
Karen Lee Ashcraft and Lisa A. Flores, "Slaves with White Collars? Persistent Performances of Masculinity in Crisis," Text and Performance Quarterly, 23, no. 1 (January 2000): 1-29. download
*Robert Alan Brookley and Robert Westerfelhaus, "Hiding Homoeroticism in Plain View: The Fight Club DVD as Digital Closet," Critical Studies in Media Communication March 2002 (19:1), 21-43. download
J. Michael Clark, "Faludi, Fight Club, and Phallic Masculinity," Journal of Men's Studies 2002 (11:1), 65-76. download
*Gary Crowdus, "Getting Exercised over Fight Club," Cineaste September 2000 (25:4), 46-48. download
Krister Friday, "`A Generation of Men Without History'": Fight Club, Masculinity, and the Historical Symptom," Postmodern Culture May 2003 (13:3). On campus link
*Henry A. Giroux, "Brutalised Bodies and Emasculated Politics: Fight Club, Consumerism, and Masculine Violence," Third Text Winter 200-01 (53), 31-41.
J. Hoberman, "Wrong Men, Wronged Men, and Hitchcock's Great Wrong-Man Comedy," Village Voice 26 October 1999, 153. download
Charlie Jarvis, "Escape from Freedom: Fight Club: Hollywood's Sucker Punch for Fascism," Human Events 29 October 1999, 1052. download
Emily Jenkins, "Extreme Sport: An Interview with Thrill-Seeking Novelist Chuck Palahniuk," Village Voice 19 October 1999, 67. download
Matt Jordan, "Marxism, Not Manhood: Accommodation and Impasse in Seamus Heaney's Beowulf and Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club," Men and Masculinities April 2002 (4:4), 368-379.
Stuart Klawans, "Rough and Tumble," The Nation 8 November 1999, 32-36. download
Terry Lee, "Virtual Violence in Fight Club: This is What Transformation of Masculine Ego Feels Like," Journal of American and Comparative Culture Fall/Winter 2002 (25:3/4), 418-423. download
Jethro Rothe-Kushel, "Fight Club: A Ritual Cure For The Spiritual Ailment Of American Masculinity," The Film Journal, no. 8 ( February 2004).
Raphael Shargel, "Social Outrage Season," The New Leader 1-15 November 1999, 18-19. download
Gavin Smith, "Inside Out [interview with David Fincher]," Film Comment 1999?, 58-68.
Amy Taubin, "21st-Century Boys," Village Voice 19 October 1999, 43-44. download
Peter Travers, "Fight Club [review]," Rolling Stone 28 October 1999, 113-114. download
Toby Young, "Getting a Rise out of Men," The Spectator 30 October 1999, 22-23. download
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