1. Watch the scene in the movie Fight Club from 0:03:08 to 0:3:52. What does it say about how American society and culture imagine masculinity and femininity? What makes this a crucial defining scene for the rest of the movie? (3-4 sentences)
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Then watch Picnic at Hanging Rock and answer the following:
2. Discussion question: comment on idealization and imitation, and group feeling and identification in this film: how/where in the film do they appear and what might be the significance of the mark that those who have been to the Rock and have returned carry on their foreheads?
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3.Then answer this question: How do both films ( Fight Club and Picnic at the Hanging Rock) make the mirror and mirroring central to their main idea and to their representation of gender? (2- 3 sentences)
And the last question:
4. Wrap-up: remember that Lacan and iek claim that idealization and ideology (i.e. who/what is better, truer, than others) can only take place if there is also a fundamental exclusion (of others). Show how such exclusions are fundamental to both films ( Fight Club and Picnic at the Hanging Rock). (3 sentences)
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