My wife is a huge fan of HBO's "Sex and the City." Over the years, for gifts, I've bought her the various seasons of the show, and now, she owns them all. Consequently, I've had a chance to watch all of the episodes and have become a fan myself. For my research project, I will analyze HBO's "Sex and the City,". I'm interested in discovering how the show forwards or counters Galician's myths, specifically, myths 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, and 9, as well as what norms are suggested and enforced by the acceptance or rejection of those myths by the show's characters. I hypothesize that the show will reinforce and counter the myths, with respective characters struggles being tied to the acceptance of the myths; thus countering the myths, and occasional "breakthroughs" in relationships forwarding the myths.
My Audience will be my class and teacher. I expect they'll be interested in my results as Galician's myths and their acceptance or rejection and propagation in the media has been the focus of our reading and writing. Naturally I hope to convince them to see my argument my way; I intend to influence and guide their reasoning with solid writing and argument.
I intend to view 2-4 episodes of each season, carefully paying attention to the dynamics of the relationships, both romantic and platonic. I would also like to incorporate some interviews with various viewers, but that will depend on the amount of material I already have to work with from my notes on the show as well information from various journals.
I'll begin to start watching episodes immediately, and hopefully I'll have my thesis developed in a couple days. From their I'll add material until I can complete my thoughts on the subject; hopefully I can finish that 3-4 days before the project is due. I'll spend the last 3 days writing.
I'm not sure how exactly I should conduct interviews, if I decide to do them. How should I pick my interviewees?
I hope to learn about the influence of a popular of its viewers regarding relationship norms and expectation. I would be nice to find some results that are not expected; therefore giving me a fresh perspective on my assumptions.
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Robert, you have a very clear goal and topic that you are trying to find out more about. I find your topic on "Sex in the City" very interesting because the show does counter a lot of the myths but at the same time the relationships do forward them. For instance the independent Marinda does seem to counter the myths, but she gets together with Steve and has a stereotypical relationship.
ReplyDeleteI think that you have a very clear idea of who your audience will be and what they will determine from your research. You've also picked a topic that I think most of your audience will be familiar with, so you aren't picking something that you will have to educate them on because "Sex and the City" has become such a pop culture icon for television shows.
I think that your topic is very doable, however, i feel by analyzing that many myths you might find that your paper is exceeding the alloted paper limit. I think maybe you should only discuss two or three of the myths in detail. Of course what you ultimately decide to do is your choice, I would just find that there would be too much going on with a paper with that many myths going on.
Again, I just like to reiterate the fact that I think this is a great topic and I think that you will find a lot of interesting research on the subject. I would suggest that if you want to do some interviews you could ask several members of the class, or you could conduct a survey through facebook or just walk up to random strangers. I think if you tailor your questions to your topic and what you want to ask you could definitely get some helpful feedback. It might also be easier to conduct your interviews with your classmates because we are all familiar with the myths, and might be able to over educated answers to your questions.