Tag: Theme: Close Reading & Analysis
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Gregory House, Disabled Bastard, in House MD Season 1
Theme: Ableism, Theme: Alcoholism & Drug Use & Addiction, Theme: Autism & ADHD, Theme: Character Study, Theme: Chronic Pain, Theme: Close Reading & Analysis, Theme: Disability, Theme: House MD, Theme: Identity & Personality, Theme: Mobility Aids & Assistive Devices, Theme: Self-Esteem Issues, Theme: Shame & Self-Loathing, Theme: Television & Entertainment
Starting with E1: Everybody Lies. Analysing House MD S1’s approach to disability and ableism within its narrative. House MD is one of the most shows ever made, and I love it, I think it’s great, I think it’s really fucked up. House MD, if you are not familiar — or, more likely, if you’ve seen it posted…
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The Real Harm in “Harmful Content”
Exploring the true harm in “harmful content” and “problematic” media. Originally published in An Injustice! We live, unfortunately, in a world increasingly defined by people’s lack of media literacy. It isn’t as simple as people not reading, because people do — as schools and universities increasingly cut or allocate resources away from English literature, history, and other…
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Close Reading: A Deep Dive into the Process
An in-depth guide into applying analysis to a piece of text and extrapolating meaning. A close reading is what we call an in-depth analysis of a piece of text, which might be in the case of fiction a short story, or for novels and novellas might be a portion or an extract from the text.…
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The Straight Male Gaze on Pretty Male Gays
How does it feel when straight men want to fuck us? A quick little intro — I went ham on this one. I watched A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge and it just gave me a lot of feelings. Warnings throughout this piece for discussion of the film’s gore and violence, the homophobia both in- and…
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Why We Need To Write Essays
And more importantly, why they should be fun. Photo by the Pineapple Supply Co. via Unsplash. A thing I’ve become frustrated with in recent years is the increasingly prevailing idea that an essay is a piece of writing produced exclusively within the bounds of academia and/or on the pages of a broadsheet newspaper. An essay, at…
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Why is Aziraphale so gay?
Analysis of Aziraphale’s characterisation in Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman. This meta essay was originally written and published on Tumblr and Ao3 in 2019 — it’s silly and written as much for humour as it is for textual analysis, with curse words and sarcastic comments, and I’m afraid it’s not terribly academic, but I came…