Abstract
In his article “Watching Fight Club in Tel Aviv: Or The 2011 Social Protests in Israel, a Political Postmortem,” Eran Kaplan provides an analysis of the ideological underpinnings of the social protests that swept Israel in 2011 and the failure of these protests to bring about actual political change. The article draws on the manner by which David Fincher’s film Fight Club exposes the ideological dimensions of modern, neoliberal consumerist society as a way to understand the driving forces behind the Israeli protests and to suggest a possible way out of the ideological quagmire that the protesters and their leaders were unable to traverse.
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Kaplan, Eran.
"Watching Fight Club in Tel Aviv: Or The 2011 Social Protests in Israel, a Political Postmortem."
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
21.2
(2019):
<https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.3573>
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