Ok so it was a while ago now that the essay was handed in. Compared to my Identity essay this was definitely a last minute job and I’m not expecting great things from it realistically. I had half the amount of resources as I did to the previous one, but hey ho. I made the word count….JUST.
I would have thought that we had got our marks back by now, so I don’t know whats happened with them. Let’s just hope that I’ve passed both of them so that I don’t have to resit the year *crosses fingers* !!
Hmm…this seems to be a lot harder to write than it was suppose to be. The questions are too vague to choose which one to do so I don’t know what I’m actually writing. Not started writing yet, but I have started making some notes from the one book that I managed to find in the library.
5 days til hand in.
Today is the essay hand in for Media, Identity and Diversity. My chosen essay title was; “Consider the performance of gender, and transgressive possibilities for sexual identities.”
Initially I started writing and really struggled to get words onto the page. I got to 600 words and decided to call it off. I arranged a chat with Chris Pullen as I had asked him to provide me with some documentary films about gender performance. During this chat he was able to suggest other books and films to look at and so I was able to understand the topic a little more, which gave me a better angle to write the essay. I actually understood how things fitted together.
David Gauntlett seems to make Judith Butler talk sense – if anyone has ever tried reading Butlers work, you’ll know its full of long winded and complicated ways of saying things, where as Gauntlett seems to put them into modern context so that you can relate to it. That guy is a dude!
I completed my essay in time of the original deadline before it was moved, which was quite handy really as it means now I have a half week extra to do reading and research for my Media, Censorship and Regulation essay (which is due in on the 6th May). I’m still not entirely sure which title I’m going to choose for this one, but we’ll see.
