- tried to find an adviser in the film department
- inspired by Lindsey’s research workshop to use Tumblr (found behind the scenes and promotional images, reviews, an infographic by The Guardian featuring stats about Hitchcock’s most popular works, real-time posts by Hitchcock fans in honor of Hitchcocktober, etc.)
- setting up meeting with Joe McElhaney (Hunter’s Hitchcock expert) to run my ideas by him
- narrowing down primary sources (novels and films)
- met with Isabel Pindeo; helped me weed out irrelevant sources that were only confusing me and pulling my thesis in different directions
- started using Zotero to keep my bibliography under control
All posts by Mar y Sol
What I Did This Week #1
- Sick in bed with a cold most of last week, but managed to watch a few films Professor Paoli recommended including Audition, a Japanese Horror film about a lonely producer who holds an audition to find the perfect wife. I dry heaved. It made me think about the limits (if any) that I will place on the types of films and books I wish to include.
- Figured out a new way to find print sources: AMAZON! I found a book I was already using, added it to my wishlist, and then browsed through the recommended section that pops up afterward. Really useful titles that the Hunter library ended up carrying.
- Browsed Hunter stacks and found some gems: The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan Poe, The Monstrous Feminine, and a handful of other helpful titles that I’m looking through and scanning.
- Found some useful articles among the required reading for my Horror Films class.
- Meeting with Professor Pinedo during her office hours tomorrow.
- Narrowing down my Poe list.
