El cuerpo fascista recuperadola exploración de la masculinidad en Fight Club
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Universidad de Cádiz
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ISSN: 1130-0507, 1989-4651
Year of publication: 2016
Issue Title: Filosofía y cuerpo desde el pensamiento greco-romano hasta la actualidad. En memoria de Rocío Orsi Portalo
Issue: 5
Pages: 573-582
Type: Article
More publications in: Daimon: revista internacional de filosofía
Abstract
In 1999 the debates around the crisis of masculinity produced in the United States of America a great amount of criticism and situated in opposition the scholars coming from the feminist environment and those who founded the Mythopoetic Movement of Men, confronted to the assumptions of the discipline of Gender Studies. The release of Fight Club provoked a catharsis in that scenario of confrontation and addressed the regeneration of hegemonic masculinity, locating it in a regression towards primitive violence conceptualized as male essence. By assembling the narrative with these discourses, David Fincher’s proposal (as well as Chuk Palahniuk’s in the novel originating the film), intends to diagnose the perils of understanding the masculine as essentially linked to physical pain and the aggressive combat, provoking the identification of this process with the formation of the political bodies of fascism.
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