Fight Club vs. Culture Jam
The movie Fight Club and Kalle Lasn’s book Culture Jam, both make strong accusations towards the evolving flaws of current American culture. In their own unique ways, this film and paperback express an alarming concern for growing consumerism, the power of the media, and the control popular culture and conformity have over us as individuals. They also propose very different approaches to how we can cure America of these cultural diseases, even if it is taken to extremes.Consumerism is one of the more discussed topics in Fight Club and in Culture Jam. In the beginning of Fight Club, Edward Norton is portrayed as a compulsive buyer whose life revolves around catalogs and popular belief. This was to show how many Americans spend their hard e
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Approximate Word count = 503
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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