# Event Details - **Event Name**: What We Talk About When We Talk About Fight Club | Binge Thinking - **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 28 Jul, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Tue, 28 Jul, 2026 at 09:00 pm - **Event Description**: Join us as we unpack Fight Club through literary analysis, film studies, and gender theory to reveal what the film says about us...About this EventWelcome to Binge Thinking. We invite professors and experts to give lectures in bars!In a world of AI slop, doomscrolling and brainrot, Binge Thinking brings real experts into real places for nights of learning, conversation, and community.Think Responsibly.Topic: What We Talk About When We Talk About Fight ClubSpeaker: Dr. Kellie Bean (Boston Architectural College)Modern masculinity is one of the most talked-about and least carefully examined topics in film criticism today.Most conversations about a movie like Fight Club settle into one of two camps: it's either dismissed as a glorification of toxic masculinity, or embraced uncritically as a manifesto. Both readings miss what's actually happening on screen.But what if the key to understanding Tyler Durden isn't his philosophy at all, but the things his story can't say directly?This lecture begins with Raymond Carver's short story "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" to introduce the tropes and themes at stake, then spends the rest of the hour in close readings of clips from the film itself.Carver's spare, evasive dialogue about love becomes a lens for the film's own evasions — its obsession with male bodies, its violence, its jokes — all standing in for things its characters can't or won't articulate. The "fun" of watching attractive men beat each other senseless isn't incidental; it's the mechanism that distracts viewers from the cynicism underneath.Topics include:How Fincher translates the anxieties of Carver's story onto the screenThe male body as battleground — one character shrinking, the other bulking up over the runtimeThe film's interrogation of the "ingénue" figureWhy violence between attractive men functions as spectacle and distractionHow that spectacle conceals the deep cynicism of Tyler's worldviewThe film's final twist, and what it reveals about its own narratorThis talk combines literary analysis, film studies, and gender theory to ask what Fight Club's tricks - on its characters and on its audience - reveal about modern masculinity's relationship to intimacy, violence, and self-deception.About the SpeakerDr. Kellie Bean is the Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs at The Boston Architectural College (BAC), bringing over 25 years of experience in higher education leadership. Dedicated to student access, retention, and faculty development, she previously served as Provost at Rio Grande University and held key administrative roles at Hartwick College and Northern Vermont University, where she consistently championed institutional honors and awards.Before transitioning to senior administration, Dr. Bean was an English professor with a subspecialty in film, frequently teaching a course on Fight Club. She holds a Ph.D. in English Literature and Cultural/Feminist Theory from the University of Delaware, alongside a Master’s in English and a Bachelor’s in Drama from The Ohio State University, a creative foundation that fuels her passion for playwriting.Agenda7:00 PM — Doors Open & Drinks7:30 PM — Lecture Begins8:10 PM — Audience Q&A8:30 PM — Drinks & Conversation9:00 PM — Event Ends - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/somerville/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-fight-club-binge-thinking/100001992685091751 - **Event Categories**: fitness, Entertainment, Art, literary-art, Theatre, Workshops, performances - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Duration: 2 hours - Location: Upstairs at Bow - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 32.95, max: 32.95, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Somerville - **state**: MA - **country**: United States - **location**: Upstairs at Bow - **lat**: 42.3811592 - **long**: -71.0979819 - **full address**: Upstairs at Bow, 1 Bow Market Way, Somerville, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: What We Talk About When We Talk About Fight Club | Binge Thinking - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events9/banners/dc0a1e16fae13db3229dae257f408ec90ad286b0452bab2da876caf2bf52c14a-rimg-w1200-h600-dcfee185-gmir.jpg?v=1784276173 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is What We Talk About When We Talk About Fight Club | Binge Thinking being held? - **A:** What We Talk About When We Talk About Fight Club | Binge Thinking takes place on Tue, 28 Jul, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Tue, 28 Jul, 2026 at 09:00 pm at Upstairs at Bow, 1 Bow Market Way, Somerville, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing What We Talk About When We Talk About Fight Club | Binge Thinking? - **A:** What We Talk About When We Talk About Fight Club | Binge Thinking is organized by Binge Thinking. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "What We Talk About When We Talk About Fight Club | Binge Thinking", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events9/banners/dc0a1e16fae13db3229dae257f408ec90ad286b0452bab2da876caf2bf52c14a-rimg-w1200-h600-dcfee185-gmir.jpg?v=1784276173", "startDate": "2026-07-28", "endDate": "2026-07-28", "url": "https://allevents.in/somerville/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-fight-club-binge-thinking/100001992685091751", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Upstairs at Bow", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "1 Bow Market Way", "postalCode": "02143", "addressLocality": "Somerville", "addressRegion": "MA", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "42.3811592", "longitude": "-71.0979819" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Join us as we unpack Fight Club through literary analysis, film studies, and gender theory to reveal what the film says about us...", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-09-05", "availabilityEnds": "2026-07-28", "validFrom": "2026-09-05", "lowPrice": "32.95", "highPrice": "32.95", "price": "32.95", "url": "https://allevents.in/somerville/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-fight-club-binge-thinking/100001992685091751" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/SoldOut", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-09-05", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-09-05", "url": "https://allevents.in/somerville/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-fight-club-binge-thinking/100001992685091751", "price": "32.95", "name": "General Admission" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Binge Thinking", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/binge-thinking/27463712", "description": "Binge Thinking hosts pop-up lecture nights in bars for people who miss learning, curiosity, and conversations with substance.We bring university professors, researchers, and thoughtful experts out of lecture halls and into relaxed, social spaces for short, engaging talks on ideas you didn’t know you needed to hear—followed by drinks, discussion, and real human connection.Binge Thinking exists as an antidote to doomscrolling and algorithmic boredom. 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