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Article: One-dimensional men: Fight Club and the poetics of the body.
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- Film Criticism
- Article date:
- September 22, 2003
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We can also read representations of consciousness, self-consciousness, articulacy and inarticulacy in men's texts as claims about men's subjectivity, and examine them for consequent aporias.
(Peter Middleton)
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One of the most memorable performances of masculine bravado in classical Hollywood cinema occurs in John Ford's "Irish" epic The Quiet Man (1952), in which the character of Sean Thornton (John Wayne) instigates a mock fistfight with his brother-in-law Will Danaher (Victor McLaglen). As the two men pummel each other around haystacks, streams, and hillsides, even stopping for a pint at a nearby pub, they seem to respect what I ...