Critical Investigation Tutorial (23rd November)

  •  Notes & Quotes document currently around 2-3,000 (work spread over different blog posts) – meets previous deadline but probably not the latest 4,500 requirement. Largely due to lost work needing to be re-done – frustrating! Always back your work up somewhere – blog, school drive etc. In terms of what you’ve got so far, fantastic selection of academic texts – this is one of the best N&Q documents I’ve seen so far in terms of book research. We now want to develop this with web sources and academic journal articles on the M: drive. In fact, we have some brilliant PDF articles on the M: drive regarding women and film so this will potentially give you another 5-10 excellent academic sources of quotes/statistics/arguments.
  •  Textual Analysis – this was Task #1 and was due last week. You’ve got something for this but in my view not quite enough. You’ve picked two key scenes from the film and identified aspects of media language. However, you don’t appear to have discussed the significance of these shots/sounds/edits etc. You don’t need to do this in flowing paragraphs but you will find it massively helpful to make some notes linked to these scenes and ideally link to the quotes you’ve found too (e.g. Mulvey, Hall etc.)
  •  Research Angela McRobbie and feminism – updates feminism for 1990s and talks about how women can be empowered using sexuality etc.
  • I would recommend an additional strand to your research which is feminism in the digital age. We teach this on the exam side of the course after Christmas but you might want to look into it before that (it could make for an excellent section to your essay). Research the Everyday Sexism project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhjsRjC6B8U
  •  Last week’s task is historical text analysis – Bond would work perfectly for this in terms of representation of women. This will also give you plenty of research potential as there should be plenty of Bond and ‘Bond girls’ in the film/cinema books in DF07 and then again next week at the BFI. The other historical aspect you might want to cover for F&F is actually the first film – that takes you back to 2001 which in the digital age covers a huge amount of social change.
  • Tasks #1-3 – make sure you develop these to move the word count up to and beyond 4,500. New task is essay plan that you can work on over the next week or so.
  • LR: Copy this into a new blog post called ‘Critical Investigation tutorial’ and write the next three steps in your research below my feedback.
  Next Steps to my research: 
  1.  Develop my notes and quotes document further to get over the latest word count target of 4,500. Put my textual analysis writing into my notes and quotes and as a priority look at the links that Mr Halsey provided me with to add to my notes and quotes. 
  2. Decide on my historical text to research, and make head way on this task. As well as this ensure that all tasks are completed ASAP in order to be on track to begin my essay plan and then be able to write my first draft of my investigation over the Christmas break. 
  3.  Look into feminism in film atm as well as in Hollywood blockbuster, it will help to show whether there has actually been any changes as some articles claim
  4. Use M:Drive to build on my notes and quotes document

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