Critical Investigation tutorial

• ·        Notes & Quotes document a little over 3,000 – that obviously meets the previous word count deadline but not the updated 4,500 requirement (due today). Your USB issue explains some of this but we will need to plan how we’re going to get this research up to the quantity and quality required for the higher levels. In terms of what you’ve got so far, very good for secondary texts but completely lacking in academic or web sources. This tutorial will therefore need to focus on the reading that we need to do in the next couple of weeks.
  
• ·      Textual Analysis – this was Task #1 and is clearly the area you’ve focused on. It’s great to see you’ve already identified key areas to analyse. However, for your primary text analysis you need MUCH more media terminology and detail: key conventions, film language, MIGRAIN key concepts – narrative etc. This is critical to reach the higher levels – and just remember everything you’ve learned in Year 12! Treat it like a MEST1 exam clip or the Film Language test we did last year.
  
• ·      Task #2 is academic research and bibliography. This is the most concerning area currently as I can’t see any evidence of reading in your N&Q document. This is worrying – where is the Media Mag research? Media Edu? E-Jump Cut? For Media Mag, you may not find anything on your text but look for representation, ‘Britishness’, culture etc. Similarly look for these in eJump Cut: http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC41folder/UKracialDiscourse.html
  
• ·       In terms of what you should be reading – Bordwell’s Film Art is a Film Studies classic and has many references to documentary. Film Genre by Altman (all these in DF07). Cinema Studies – Key Concepts. TV Culture by Fiske.
  
• ·      Check Google Scholar for your text and (probably more successfully) British Asian representation. This kind of thing might come up: http://s3.amazonaws.com/academia.edu.documents/43979714/a37276.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJ56TQJRTWSMTNPEA&Expires=1479482671&Signature=ZPUu0rgO9mZKX5%2FPJ6zDfuXs8FY%3D&response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3DMobility_stability_British_Asian_culture.pdf
  
• ·      Also this: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00571498/document 
  
• ·      In terms of books, you’ll obviously need the two Gilroy books in class and Representation by Hall when it becomes available. Also research Edward Said (I think he’s in Hall’s book if you look for it).
  
• ·      New task is historical text analysis – Bend it Like Beckham would work (but remember it’s film rather than TV) and I would also be tempted to use Goodness Gracious Me as it’s an important text in British cultural history despite being a comedy. Maybe consider Citizen Khan as a secondary text as well?
  
• ·      Task #1&2 – make sure you catch up on these urgently to move the word count up to and beyond 4,500.