what we are going to do on Nov 24 Lecture & Discussion

first rule: don't talk about fight club!

Ran here:

on Nov 24th, I would also distribute working sheet to guide all of us to do group discussion on Fight Club, within the framework of classical/post-classical narrative. Time for you to draw examples from the film!

I would update my question by Nov 17th, and I do hope you would come back to visit this site by then.

Questions:
1. Based on what we have studied so far in terms of film style, how should we characterize the classical Hollywood filmmaking? 

2. According to KT & DB, what is a narrative? How about narration? And how about narrator?

3. What may be the cultural-political significance/function of the classical narrative (think of the formation of heterosexual couples, and the undertaking of a mission)?  Is  post-classical narrative necessarily something closer to "spectacle" (recall the cinema of attraction)?

4. Is Fight Club a best example of classical narrative, or post-classical?  

refer to the three attached tables (click the images then you will have versions in higher-resolution)

Thanouli, Eleftheria. 2006. “Post‐Classical Narration.” New Review of Film and Television Studies 4 (3): 183–96. doi:10.1080/17400300600981900.