finished the Annotated Bibliography
May. 28th, 2012 09:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI have finished and uploaded the thing that is worth 20% of a level 2 unit.
It should have been much much easier because I should have had it done already.
But now it is done.
Now for the thing that is worth the remaining 50% of that unit.
... except it fills me with a sinking sense of panic, because really, I don't know, I have nothing to say, and probably I should have picked something that wasn't so full of fascinating tangents.
But 'Gender in Doctor Who: The Aztecs and A Good Man Goes to War' is what I've been decided on for a while, even if it was by the process of 'what could I stand to watch for a year'. And the teacher said 'There is clearly a useful and interesting dissertation topic in the subject of representations of gender in Dr Who' and I will keep that quote in front of me while I panic in little circles because otherwise I might give up.
Boo.
I also need to finish my Caligari essay really quite soon now. I have until Friday but I have until Friday for all of it and I was going to finish Caligari before the bibliography but I stalled.
Why do I keep doing this to myself? Essays! Panic! Arrgh! I mean, is it worth all the tangles?
:-p to it.
... it's not that I dislike reading about my chosen topic area, at least sometimes, but all this assessment stuff is less fun.
And for my diss I have chosen an area I actually care about. Because all the psychoanalysis stuff I have to read, I don't care about that, that's a bunch of rubbish. But how women are portrayed, especially in highly popular children's television that has been going for several generations now, that matters. They portray a range of possibilities for men and for women, and the wider that range gets the better. But it isn't all progress, because there's a lot of weird around some of these representations. Like, kick arse warrior women often have a history of damage that drives them to it, while kick arse warrior men tend to set out to protect other people. Really broadly speaking. And some seriously nasty stuff happens to women, some of it seeming like a slap in the face whenever they step up and take power. Screaming pregnant in a box is a very weird image to have about anyone. But then again, a lot of nasty happens to Rory, and what's that about? If it was nasty when he was being a nurse and being a warrior worked better for him, then that's one kind of gendered pressure, but the interesting thing about Doctor Who is it didn't do that. All that blowing things up and waving swords around culminated in crashing defeat and really epic consequences. When the Doctor tried to fix things with macho, they all went horribly wrong. It only went right when he ended his story with a wedding.
Also, it's kind of funny in a meta way that wedding=death when married-off and killed-off and off-the-show have been used so equivalently up until Rory and Amy.
And as with Rory and Amy, the Doctor opened up the possibilities.
Marriage is not only not the end of the play, it's not a whole heck of a lot of a change in the person.
... except for when it's flesh!Amy, so we're back to somewhat weird again.
And what's with all the strong older women with their own agenda being evil / insane / dead? Or just failing and getting slapped down by the big man's authority. Wait, how am I counting River in that? Er, I don't tend to think of her as having her own agenda even when she's all whistling up the Doctor for fun and profit. She's too much about the Doctor. Apparently her whole existence was designed around him in universe as well as out. It's weird.
And should I divide off the RTD years and the Moff ones? They have different preoccupations as writers. It's more different than the change in Doctors or TARDIS teams.
... okay, the more I witter on about Doctor Who, the more calm I get, but the less of my assignment I'm getting done because it's kind of relevant but not in fact writing the thing.
One thousand words to explain what I'm going to find out about these two texts when I study them.
Lovely.
It should have been much much easier because I should have had it done already.
But now it is done.
Now for the thing that is worth the remaining 50% of that unit.
... except it fills me with a sinking sense of panic, because really, I don't know, I have nothing to say, and probably I should have picked something that wasn't so full of fascinating tangents.
But 'Gender in Doctor Who: The Aztecs and A Good Man Goes to War' is what I've been decided on for a while, even if it was by the process of 'what could I stand to watch for a year'. And the teacher said 'There is clearly a useful and interesting dissertation topic in the subject of representations of gender in Dr Who' and I will keep that quote in front of me while I panic in little circles because otherwise I might give up.
Boo.
I also need to finish my Caligari essay really quite soon now. I have until Friday but I have until Friday for all of it and I was going to finish Caligari before the bibliography but I stalled.
Why do I keep doing this to myself? Essays! Panic! Arrgh! I mean, is it worth all the tangles?
:-p to it.
... it's not that I dislike reading about my chosen topic area, at least sometimes, but all this assessment stuff is less fun.
And for my diss I have chosen an area I actually care about. Because all the psychoanalysis stuff I have to read, I don't care about that, that's a bunch of rubbish. But how women are portrayed, especially in highly popular children's television that has been going for several generations now, that matters. They portray a range of possibilities for men and for women, and the wider that range gets the better. But it isn't all progress, because there's a lot of weird around some of these representations. Like, kick arse warrior women often have a history of damage that drives them to it, while kick arse warrior men tend to set out to protect other people. Really broadly speaking. And some seriously nasty stuff happens to women, some of it seeming like a slap in the face whenever they step up and take power. Screaming pregnant in a box is a very weird image to have about anyone. But then again, a lot of nasty happens to Rory, and what's that about? If it was nasty when he was being a nurse and being a warrior worked better for him, then that's one kind of gendered pressure, but the interesting thing about Doctor Who is it didn't do that. All that blowing things up and waving swords around culminated in crashing defeat and really epic consequences. When the Doctor tried to fix things with macho, they all went horribly wrong. It only went right when he ended his story with a wedding.
Also, it's kind of funny in a meta way that wedding=death when married-off and killed-off and off-the-show have been used so equivalently up until Rory and Amy.
And as with Rory and Amy, the Doctor opened up the possibilities.
Marriage is not only not the end of the play, it's not a whole heck of a lot of a change in the person.
... except for when it's flesh!Amy, so we're back to somewhat weird again.
And what's with all the strong older women with their own agenda being evil / insane / dead? Or just failing and getting slapped down by the big man's authority. Wait, how am I counting River in that? Er, I don't tend to think of her as having her own agenda even when she's all whistling up the Doctor for fun and profit. She's too much about the Doctor. Apparently her whole existence was designed around him in universe as well as out. It's weird.
And should I divide off the RTD years and the Moff ones? They have different preoccupations as writers. It's more different than the change in Doctors or TARDIS teams.
... okay, the more I witter on about Doctor Who, the more calm I get, but the less of my assignment I'm getting done because it's kind of relevant but not in fact writing the thing.
One thousand words to explain what I'm going to find out about these two texts when I study them.
Lovely.