Saturday, March 20, 2010

Book Proposal - CONTAINS SPOILERS

Didn't someone write a book about contemporary male identity as seen in the popular / semipopular films of 1999? I just watched Fight Club after not seeing it since its' release. Forgot how comic it is and also how davidcronenbergian. Really. Elements of Dead Ringers, Scanners, Crash etc. are compressed into one film. As I watched Tyler and Marla watching those buildings collapse, I tried to remember if there was really that much fin de siecle' anxiety in 1999. Who am I kidding? The televangelical / teleprophetic crowd was working the Y2k angle for all it was worth. I worked in a bookstore and filled plenty of orders for some truly worrying survivalist books. We didn't know how good we had it.

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