It Cuts Both Ways: Fight Club,Masculinity, and Abject Hegemony |
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| Authors: | Claire Sisco King |
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| Institution: | 1. claire.s.king@vanderbilt.edu |
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| Abstract: | Offering a critical interrogation of white masculinity within David Fincher's Fight Club (1999), this essay uncovers a key strategy through which hegemonic systems persist, positing the abject body as a trope for understanding the life of hegemonic ideological formations. Adopting the “interspace” of abjection allows hegemonic masculinity to become everything and nothing at the same time and is a “dangerous” strategy that must be denied at all costs. Insofar as hegemony requires its abjection to remain invisible, this essay names hegemonic masculinity “abject” in order to offer critical prophylaxis against white masculinity's attempts to reproduce its cultural privilege. |
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| Keywords: | Film Masculinity Abject Hegemony Fight Club |
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