BA Eng w Cult Studs Dissertation topic

I'm reading the assignment outlines and stuff for the Dissertation Preparation module.
I have to choose a topic and do an anotated bibliography.

Choosing a Topic
When selecting a dissertation topic, remember that you are going to have to live with it for the best part of a year. It is therefore vital that you choose a subject that interests you, and that can be sustained for 10 to 12,000 words. ( Read more... )

You need to ensure that there is a reasonable amount of secondary material (historical, critical or theoretical) with which you can engage in order to show how your reading of the text(s) and your interpretation of the issue(s) relate to those of other people.


So... I wish to write about Doctor Who, because what else am I going to concentrate on for a year?
I should probably focus on bits of Doctor Who made after summer 2008, which is the last time I studied Doctor Who.
I have some books from the 2008 study spree, some essays books... okay possibly one essays books. The UEA library has a bunch of stuff.

Since I know a lot of people who know a lot of Doctor Who I thought I'd short cut and ask, what relevant academic books are there since 2008?
Or before that, but I'm more likely to have heard of them.
These are the Doctor Who non-fiction I actually own, though I'm sure there should be an extra Writers Tale in there somewhere. Maybe some other stuff. *pokes*
Also, what relevant not-books are there that are still academic?
I read a lot of LJ and DW reviews, but suspect that using them as secondary sources would not impress teachers.

I'm going to get the folder out as soon as I dare poke the big heap of previous work. It seems to have ended up quite far down. I know I bought a folder box to put previous work in, why haven't I used it? But as is I have about a metre high of work propped in a desk hutch and finding any specific part is... challenging.

I realise this looks a lot like 'do my homework for me' but rest assured I will be spending many afternoons in the library doing said homework myself (which is a happy thought on this particular topic). This is just asking all my sources.


As for topic... ( Read more... )

yaay for Dreamwidth

am reading some of my old notes posted to LJ and the discussions that followed them.
am reading them on dreamwidth because on LJ the deletion of accounts has absolutely gutted the discussions.
am very glad I have the copies. reconstructing them from email is theoretically possible but given the way LJ titles all its emails... yowch.

have also been running into walls whenever someone links to del. including collections that were at del. of things that look like they would have been useful.

I kind of miss paper books, because even if you find one with the pages fallen out the chances are still good of finding another copy with pages, but paper books wouldn't have had these discussions in the first place. So I'm just sad about ephemerality.

Women in Doctor Who: Writers

I just wiki researched women writers in Doctor Who.
... that isn't actually as simple as reading the names. There seems to be a lot of argue about if people actually exist, or if they did ever went within miles of a script. *blinks*

I made a list:
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All that was wiki sourced, I know, should do proper readings somewhere better.

The classic series stuff gets a bit confusing to count. There were Not Many Women, and them in the 80s.

But, basically:

In the whole new series there was Helen Raynor.
And not recently.

That does not strike me as good.



Who should we get to write Doctor Who?

Counting Doctor Who

Have decided to go through new series Doctor Who counting it like I did Torchwood.

Epic project is epic.
completely blank yet daunting table below the cut. Well, blank except for episode names and count headings.
ETA: And the numbers on the first and second season, though not the death counts.
I copied over the Bechdel results from lefaym from lefaym.livejournal.com/18414.html

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Okay, so, that might look a teensy obsessive, but really, it just means watching the whole thing over again. It's not like I don't do that at regular intervals anyway.

... if anyone else wants to fill in a line, feel free to comment.