This document outlines 8 critical approaches for analyzing the film Fight Club, including analyzing the star/performer, genre, auteur, social/cultural messages, gender issues, ethnicity, the film's institution, and its use of technology. It poses questions about the main stars (Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Helen Bonham Carter), the genre, the auteur or director's style, and what the film says about society, politics, and values through lenses of Marxism, nihilism, and postmodernism. It also prompts considering the film's portrayal of men and women and the institution that produced it.

1. Fight Club

2. The 8 Critical Approaches
• Star / Performer
• Genre
• Auteur
• Social / cultural and political messages
• Gender issues
• Ethnicity
• Institution
• Technology

3. Star and Performance?
• Brad Pitt
• Edward Norton
• Helen Bonham Carter

4. Genre?

5. Auteur

6. Social, cultural and political contexts
• What is this film saying about our society, our
political systems and values?
Marxism, Nihilism, Postmodernism

7. Gender issues
• Representation of Men • Representation of
Women

8. Institution
• Who made it, how did they make it, was is
profitable, was it typical?
• Research Task