COMM 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Romantic Comedy Film, Masculinity, Bromance
Document Summary
Dissociative personality and the crisis of masculine identity. Cruel in one way and kind in another. Causes to issues: begin with graphic sequences. Fear impulse: fear is primary cause for everything going on, fight or flight. Firing of electricity initiated by narrators fear impulse. Mind"s eye view: narrator has a gun in his mouth. Narration that follows is motivated by fear of death and overcoming it. Explains how he ends up with the gun in his mouth: relationship between love and wounding. Love one another and fight one another. A tale of two crises: cultural. Disempowerment of white males in contemporary consumer culture which reduces identity to the accumulation of stuff. Consumer identity: purchasing things based on what it says about you. Jack"s worthless life: jack is narrator. Liability specialist: calculates financial risk of consumer suits against a car company that knows its products are dangerous. 11/17/16: only meaning in life is stuff he owns, trapped in consumer nesting impulse.
