2 down, 2 to go

I've handed in 2 essays in the last couple of days: a 5000 word study on fans of My Chemical Romance for the Fandom module, as well as 3000 words on the way in which magazines create desire for the Consumption module.
I really enjoyed the fandom assignment, writing about the kind of thing that really interests me, plus it might of helped that I quite like the band too!
Consumerism wasn't quite as much fun as the fandom module, but it was really interesting to go through a massive pile of loads of magazines (like the issue of GQ up there) and look at them in a different way than I usually would.

Tomorrow is the Race and Ethnicity seen exam, for which I've chosen to answer one question on how 'Whiteness' takes up the position or ordinariness in Western Media, and another on the Blaxploitation genre of the 70's and issues of trans-coding.


After that, term one of year 2 will be over.

"That's my sister, baby, and she's a whole lotta woman"

I watched the film 'Foxy Brown' today, as research for my 'Race and Ethnicity' assignment, for which I'm looking at Blaxploition films.
This is definately going in my ever increasing list of favourite films, and Pam Grier might just be my new hero.
We're watching 'Coffy' tomorrow, which will probably just push her higher up on my list.

If you ever felt....

For my MSVC 202 (Subcultures) assignment on fandom I've chosen to write about My Chemical Romance, a band I have a bit of a soft spot for, though wouldn't call myself a massive fan of.
I've joined forums and talked to people who do consider themselves huge fans and they've been really helpful in answering my questions and basically giving me a lot of personal information to help me with this.
I'm now at the stage where I'm analysing the bands songs and videos, which has actually reminded me how much I like them.
I've been a bit lazy when it comes to updating here and putting assignments up, but when it's done this one will almost definately be up here.