There were two verdicts on Fight Club: the opening-weekend box office numbers (spoiler alert: yikes) and the judgment of history. We’ll look at how Fight Club channeled the anti-consumerist politics of its moment, and explore some of the more provocative arguments made in the ensuing years about this still-contentious cult classic and its take on modern men.
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Host, Writer: Alex Pappademas
Showrunner: Colin McNulty
Producers: Sabrina Fang and Taylor Jones
Production Assistant and Fact Checker: Stella Hartman
Composer, Sound Designer, Mix Engineer: Alex MacInnis
Studio Direction and Theme Music: Dan Leone
Executive Producer for Western Sound: Ben Adair
Editor: Jamie York
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Special Thanks: Joe Paulsen and Eric Spiegelman
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