What representations of men are offered and constructed in the media texts we are studying?

On of the main texts we are studying in this unit is the movie Fight Club. Several types of masculinity are portrayed in this film such as:

• Hegomonic male. Tyler can be seen as god example of sa Hegomonic male in this film. He is very aggressive and likes to fight. He can be seen as the alpha male when he startes up the army for project mayhem as he is the one every looks up to and takes orders from. Also the narrotor seems to look to him as a father figure as he only does things with Tylers say so.
• Complicite male. The narrator can be seen as complicite as he takes greate pride in his home (creating a comftable nesting postion) and his appearence. This could be seen as feminine characteristics.
• Marginal male Many of the men in fight club can been see and marginal as they have lost there pre-industrial revolution role in the work place and many of them have a feeling of loss of traditional masculinity. There for they feel fighting in fight club can restore this feeling of masculinity and give them a place in the world again. Bob (bitch tits Bob) can be seen as marginalised. He has had his testicals removed (becasue of testicular cancer) and they for it could be argued he has lost his masculinity entirly and has been feminised. Becuase of this Bob is killed as a punishment for abandoning his masculinity by being shot in the head during a mission for "Project mayhem"