1. MALE REPRESENTATION “We’re designed to be hunters and we’re in a society of shopping” - Tyler Objectives: To analyse the representation of Masculinity in ‘Fight Club’. To outline and analyse the binary opposites that exist between the Narrator and Tyler.

2. Starter Annotate the body outline with the features, signifiers of traditional masculinity. Be as creative as you like

4. The Feminization of Man and an increase in ‘consumption’

5. Repressed ‘Raw’ Masculinity

7. The ‘real man’ has been lost by consumerism and the media

8. Film depicts mens’ frustration at the media’s ‘feminisation’ of men

9. Mans obsession with consumerism has replaced traditional male symbols: strength, honour

10. Attacks lack of male role models – men raised by women due to men working

13. The ‘Unreliable Narrator’ – gains audiences trust but is untrustworthy due to his mental state

14. The ‘new man’ character – he is ‘emasculated’

15. Consumerist: Job + Possessions + Clothes + Car = Happiness

16. His male status is an illusion – accumulation of possessions but no happiness

17. Traditional male role is lost – no male friends, no sexual partner, no libido, no ‘action’ job

19. Spaces which constrain him/give a sense of confinement; Low ceilings cluttered sets; no colour (chiaroscuro)

21. Power Animals: Lion? Tiger? Shark? Penguin

22. Connotations of the Penguin:

23. Small; Incapable of Flight; Childish; Harmless; Tuxedo/wears a suit

26. Norton’s unstable perspective: How he see’s contemporary man:

27. A muscleman with breasts (Traditional Masculinity V’s the New Man)

28. In trying to attain ideal male physique gets breasts!

30. Starter/Re-cap Annotate the features of the new man presented to us by Fight Club all around the body outline. You can be as creative as you like.

31. Tyler Watch the clip. What role does Tyler play in the narrative? What does he embody & how is he different to the Narrator?

33. Group Task Create a list of the binary opposites that exist between the Narrator and Tyler. Choose one of these and write up your notes in full sentences.

35. The same as everybody else – just another grey suit (‘A copy of a copy of a copy’)

36. Occupies shadowy underworld