A copy, of a copy, of a copy?
exploring masculiniy under transformation in Fight Club

"Ten years have passed since 1999, the year that cinemas were hit by a number of influential, now modern cult classics on the state of reality and its representation: The Matrix, Being John Malkovich, Magnolia and eXistenZ. Perhaps most famously, if we are dealing with novel ways of articulating the realities of gender subjectivities, 1999 brought us David Fincher's adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's 1996 novel Fight Club. This movie in many ways marks the culmination of the tendency during the 1990s towards depicting masculinity on film in new ways (cf. Jeffords, 1994: 197). During the last decade, these changes have awakened a widespread academic interest, and Fight Club is clearly one of the films that are most often addressed by researchers and cultural critics wanting to probe the relationship between sexuality, politics and popular culture. The aim of this article is to use the existing body of work on Fight Club to develop a critique of academic approaches to screen textuality that attempt to fix readings in the terrain of gender studies." [Information des Anbieters]