The film that launched modern fascism

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A Fight Club deep dive film analysis.

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BIG TIME SPOILERS for Fight Club, and Avengers: Infinity War. Content warning: fascism, discussion of violence, suicide, adult films and adult situations

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Thanks to these fine friends for lending their voices!
- Mikey Neumann reading from Film Theory: An Introduction, Second Edition
twitter.com/mikeyface and youtube.com/filmjoy
- Shannon Strucci as Christian Metz and reading from Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts, Second Edition
twitter.com/plentyofalcoves and youtube.com/struccimovies
- Dan Olson as David Fincher
twitter.com/FoldableHuman and youtube.com/foldingideas
- Jen as I. A. R. Wylie
twitter.com/deaths_cool and twitch.tv/shaunandjen
- Robert Evans as Eric Hoffer
twitter.com/iwriteok and behindthebastards.com
- H.Bomberguy as Andrew Hewitt
twitter.com/hbomberguy and youtube.com/c/hbomberguy
- May Letiz as Bertolt Brecht
twitter.com/nyxfears and youtube.com/c/nyxfears

Movies Referenced:
Fight Club (1999) dir David Fincher
The Sixth Sense (1999) dir M Night Shyamalan
Avengers: Infinity War (2018) dir Anothony & Joe Russo
The Universal Clock: The Resistance of Peter Watkins (2001) dir Geoff Bowie
Behind the Green Door (1972) dir Artie & Jim Mitchell

For more on Peter Watkins, check out his website where he's got some essays, etc: http://pwatkins.mnsi.net/ and I definitely suggest his movie Punishment Park.

Other References:
"Behind the Scenes of Fight Club - The Narrator shoots himself in the mouth" via Rosemary P on YouTube
"BUSTED: Right-Winger Mike Cernovich Pretending To Be Assaulted" via The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder on YouTube [Cernovich footage]
"'Let's party like it's 1933': Inside the alt-right world of Richard Spencer" by John Woodrowcox from The Washington Post, November 22, 2016
Fincher's Average Shot Length data from http://vashivisuals.com/category/david-fincher/
Image of Dave Rubin via The Rubin Rebort on YouTube
Fight Club: Original Motion Picture Score by The Dust Brothers (1999) Restless Records
"How David Fincher Hijacks Your Eyes" by Nerdwriter1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqD5WqChUY
"David Fincher - Invisible Details" by kaptiankristian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QChWIFi8fOY
"Netflix Series 'Mindhunter' Brings Filmmaking Savvy to Episodic TV | Adobe Creative Cloud" by Adobe Creative Cloud https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQLLIHrBOi0
"The Hidden Meaning In Fight Club - Earthling Cinema" by Wisecrack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqI6jgTUGmc
"Der Sieg des Glaubens" poster from 1933, Propagandaministerium
Photo of Fincher: "Director David Fincher at the french premiere of his movie The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in Paris" by Elen Nivrae from Paris, France
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk 1996 W.W. Norton
"Fight club draws techies for underground beatdowns" by Associated Press in East Bay Times, May 30, 2006
Video of "Forbes reporter finds tape of Trump 'spokesman' John Barron" via CNN.com
Video of "Trump to PBS reporter: Such a racist question" via CNN.com
"GAVIN McINNES QUITS THE PROUD BOYS" via Gavin McInnes on YouTube
"Proud boys initiation second degree" via BattleBrothersTrading on YouTube
"Police Seek 9 Proud Boys Supporters on Riot Charges After Brawls With Antifa" by Ashley Southall in New York Times, October 15, 2018
"Inejiro Asanuma" entry on wikipedia.org

Music:
"The Descent," "Echoes of Time v2," "Industrial Cinematic," "Phantom from Space," "Chillin Hard" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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