Image via WikipediaI was so excited, I forgot what I was supposed to be doing.
My research question, for right now at least, is: do the experiences of comic-book superheroes in movies parallel the experiences of people with disabilities? The two movies I thought of, The Fantastic Four and X-Men: The Last Stand, seem to do this, as far as I remember, but I'll have to watch them again to be sure. And then I'll have to start researching disability as an experience. I think I'll watch them today, since I've got the day off (yay again!) and I don't want to go out in the snow
Image by bella lago via FlickrI just woke up and decided to post my entry about my research question, but I thought I would check to see if the campus was going to close early today (blizzard warning for later this afternoon!). I was sure that my class (12:30 to 1:45PM) wouldn't be cancelled, since I never get that lucky, but there's a big flashing message on the school webpage, and it looks like they decided to close for the day. I'm so excited -- it's only the third week of the semester, and I already needed an extra day to catch up. Yay! I'm going to make some coffee and get right to work.
Image by WBUR via FlickrI think I've got a topic, but I have to come up with a research question, and I'm having trouble finding the words. I saw Dr. Toffee during her office hours on Thursday, and we talked about movies. It turns out that she is interested in disability in movies. After hearing her talk about it for a while, I got interested too, and she suggested a few that I might want to think about. This may sound strange, but I think I'm going to look at superhero movies, starting with The Fantastic Four and the X-Men films. They both deal with people who are physically different from "normal" people, and I can already see that they have some of the issues Dr. Toffee mentioned.
My research is not going to be about the films as much as it is going to be about what they call "disability studies," which is the academic field that covers this kind of thing. She gave me a couple of book titles to look for, so I've got a start for that.
Image via WikipediaI was so excited, I forgot what I was supposed to be doing.
