Title:Misogyny vs. Misandry

Thursday 5th May 2016

FM4: Varieties of Film Experience – Issues and Debates

Section C: Single Film – Close Critical Study

(30 Marks)

Why?

Aims & Objectives

• YOU WILL re-cap HOW an ideology you need to know for the exam applies to the text.

• YOU WILL develop an understanding of the Single Film Case Study and it’s many complex ideologies and approaches.

• YOU WILL analyse a key scene from the text.

• Review the learning.

AO1

Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of film as an audio-visual form of creative expression together and

AO2 Apply knowledge and understanding, including some of the common critical approaches that characterise the subject, when exploring and analysing films.

Entrance Activity

Robert B___ ‘I___n J_____’ (19___) ideology – Male frustration and anger at society –

“The a_____h of s____ m____” and how “part of their gr___ rose out of re_______ss from their f______s”

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• WHAT did Fight Club offer? (Refuge, escapism – From WHAT?)

• “Wildman” (Robert Bly) – Tyler Durden – Guides a young man through the stages of male growth and remind him (‘The narrator’) of his masculinity and purpose.

In your exercise books, YOU MUST analyse and identify an example (or more) of where Tyler Durden conforms to the “Wildman” ideology.YOU SHOULD note down evidence to support your Point of view.

BRANDING (Propp’s Narrative Functions): Hero is branded

“Wildman” (Robert Bly)

• WHAT did this branding do to ‘The Narrator’?• Tyler makes Soap - WHAT is he trying to cleanse?

Rookh Kshatriya (2012)

“robbed of” - WHO has robbed them of this manhood?

WHY does Marla irritate ‘The Narrator’ so much?

YOU MUST support your point of view with evidence from the text.

Misogyny

Misandry• WHAT position (Stuart Hall – 1980) does this confrontation put the spectator in?

However by the end…..

‘The resolution’ (Syd Field)

‘Tyler Durden is a motherf*cker’ - Chris Landis

“After Jack has shot himself and killed Tyler, he is able to see more clearly. He now seems to not require his Father or Tyler or anyone else; he is able to love Marla and accept her love in return”

TASK – WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNT?

How are Gender roles represented in ‘Fight Club’? [30 Marks]

Introduction (In no particular order cover the areas below) –

• Introduce the institutional information surrounding the film – ‘Name of Film’ (Date – Director)• Provide a brief overview of HOW Gender role(s) are represented in the text.• Include a relevant theory/critical review – e.g Rookh Kshatriya (2012) – The male characters represented in

‘Fight Club’ have been “systematically robbed of” their manhood.

Main Body –

• Use the Critical Reviews and/or your notes to establish HOW Gender roles are represented in ‘Fight Club’ – for example:

Robert Bly, Coupland and Generation X, Ebbert (1999)

• Key areas to focus on: Misandry and Misogyny• Key Characters: Tyler, Jack, Bob and Marla

Conclusion – Brief - “To conclude, both Gender roles are represented as……”

YOU SHOULD produce an answer to this question based around the research you have carried out today.