The First Rule is…. Images and Reflections of the Rhizome in Fight Club

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  • Paul Elliot University of Essex

Keywords:

Fight Club, Film, Leitmotif, Rhizome

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Works Cited: Articles and Essays

Crowdus, Gary. “Getting Exercised Over Fight Club.” Cineaste, Vol. 25, 2000.

Diken, Bulent and Carsten Bagge Lausten. “Enjoy Your Fight – Fight Club as a Sympton of the Network Society.” Published online at http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/sociology/papers/diken-laustsen-enjoy-your-fight.pdf, 2001.

Gargett, Adrian. “Doppleganger: Exploded States of Consciousness in Fight Club.”Published online at http://www.disinfo.com/site/, 2001.

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Films

Fight Club (1999), Dir. David Fincher

Psycho (1960), Dir. Alfred Hitchcock

Pulp Fiction (1994), Dir. Quentin Tarrentino

Strange Days (1995), Dir. Kathryn Bigelow

Vertigo (1958), Dir. Alfred Hitchcock

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2005-09-01

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The First Rule is…. Images and Reflections of the Rhizome in Fight Club. (2005). Postgraduate English: A Journal and Forum for Postgraduates in English, 12. https://postgradenglishjournal.awh.durham.ac.uk/ojs/index.php/pgenglish/article/view/47