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Postmodern Cinematic Themes and Tropes in Fight Club 
Intro
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liabilities analyst who struggles in a late capitalist, postmodern American environment
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protagonist goes to support groups for diseases that he doesn't have and meets Marla Singer who does the same thing
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Project Mayhem = “tackling corporate
greed, franchised phoniness, and the continued dehumanization of the entire race
Breaking the fourth wall
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destroys the
audience’s illusion of watching, unseen, through the invisible “wall”
self-reflexivity in film
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splicing explicitly shown = pornography, flashing
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mid-air collision fantasy, handheld camera, slow-motion
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Satire
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satirises the consumer
culture of which it forms a part (this is an ironical form of self-reflexivity).
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v\existentialism that came to light in the literature of the modernist era is taken to
comical extremes by Postmodernism
Postmodern symbolism
landscape = consumer culture but the house on
Paper Street into which the protagonist moves with Tyler undermines this
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protagonist is surrounded by single servings of food and
complimentary toiletries = disposable nature of his lifestyle
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collapsing buildings are symbolic of the fall of masculine,
corporate identity