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A 13 page paper which draws somewhat upon feminist film theory to provide a semiological and textual analysis of the film, paying particular attention to how the discourses of gender are played out. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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women were nurturing wives and mothers who subserviently did as they were told. But director David Finchers 1999 dark satire, Fight Club, (featuring Jim Uhls screenplay based on Chuck
Palahniuks novel) suggests that at the close of the twentieth century, the male gender was rapidly becoming an endangered species. In order to understand the films message within the
larger context of contemporary society, semiological inquiry can be an important analytical tool for it reveals how cultural values are responsible for individual perceptions and for determining gender roles.
While some values are carried on from one generation to another, their interpretations vary depending upon the social significance attached to them during a particular epoch. Much of the
American value structure is encapsulated within a trendy and extremely perishable popular culture, and is placed on display for the world to see through cinema. Therefore, textual analysis of
film can provide considerable insight into the people and attitudes of modern-day society. In terms of feminist film theory, as articulated in such landmark texts as Laura Mulveys Visual
Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, textual analysis can take two forms - that of transforming the female body into an object of external libidinal desire and an internal examination, which tends
to idealize self (Naiman 333). The one factor which unites the two symbolically is the sexual union of man and woman through the male penis. It is the
male fear of castration, which dictates his behavior and also generates cinematic conflict. Fight Club lends itself well to feminist film theory even if it has been frequently described by
critics as representative of "anti-feminism" (Slide: The [Feminist] Analysis of Fight Club). It is the tale of an unnamed narrator (who is dubbed as "Jack" in the closing credits
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