Sunday, October 28, 2007
Research Topic
After thinking about the things that I like and how it compares to women's autobiography I have come up with the BEST UW topic! LUCILLE Queen of Television Ball! Seeing that I love the I LOVE LUCY SHOW, I believe that Lucille Ball is the greatest woman of TV of all time. I think that I will focus on how Lucy plays an everyday housewife on set but behind the scenes Lucy was one of the key players in the production of the show. I feel that because her life on TV and at home are two completely opposite ways of life that I should investigate her life and all "double-faced" housewives! But even the wisest mind has yet something to learn. Until next time....
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I LOVE your topic! I think it's such a great idea to make a comparison between her life onscreen and her life offscreen. Possibly you could use media as a lense; this lense could help explain why she was a "double-faced housewife" and how she had to work within the constraints that the media imposed on tv. (like what was and wasn't "apropriate" to put on television at that time.) As for a database, if you go to Aladin, then databases by subject, then film and television, and then the journal film and television literature index you can find a lot of information. I just typed Lucille Ball into the journal's search bar and came up with 124 sources. A source that might be helpful is "Love, Lucy" actually written by Lucille Ball. It's her memoir about her career, her marraige to Desi Arnaz and her life on and off the screen. I'm sure whatever kind of lense you end up using your paper will be great! Good luck on your paper and thanks for the comments you wrote about mine!
~Makala
Hey Napoleon!
So in class yesterday these were the main points people were making about your topic:
1. Connect your argument to a specific woman in the 50's that you like or use the information you've found about various housewives and compare it against Lucille Ball and her family. This will give you the opportunity to create a "new" or "different" argument from what is already out there.
2. Question how well Lucille Ball stood up against the arguments made in the articles you have found. Do the theories on housewives stand up against her life? Does she fulfill the stereotypes of a housewife?
3. Make sure you don't begin to write a history paper on housewives of the 50's. If you steer off of Lucille Ball you might end up giving sort of a lit review of articles on that time-period or "issue" instead of focusing on one woman and her autobiography. Autobiography is the topic of our class so make sure you incorporate that. Also you run the risk of becoming overwhelmed with all the information available out there on housewives of the 50's so make sure you ground your work so it doesn't get too huge.
Hope this is all helpful!
~Jahlisa
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