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Sometimes, I read academic work on a series I'm familiar with, and I wonder "Are they watching the same show I did?"
But sometimes, there'll be something like this:
...and, yeah, the author was definitely watching the same show I did. (Apollo spends a lot of the series stunned.)
(From Patrick B. Sharp, "Starbuck as 'American Amazon': Captivity narrative and the colonial imagination in Battlestar Galactica." In Science Fiction Film and Television, Volume 3, Issue 1, Spring 2010, pp. 57-78.)
Also, vaguely related to this; I've finally started using my Kindle for academic stuff. Turns out syncing a pile of pdfs to the Kindle is a snap, and as I've got the keyboard version (boo touch screen) it's quite easy to make notes after highlighting bits. I don't know how it would work with full textbooks, but for shorter works (~<30 pages) it's functional and simple. It means I can sit on a bus and flick through a stack of recent papers on a topic area, mark a few bits to come back to, save trees, and spend less time scrolling up and down on a pdf reader app.*
*it lags a bit, bless it, but I'm willing to accept that ...for now
The thing I was told the Kindle could do, but I never tried to make it do, actually turns out to be a time-saving thing to do, and not difficult at all.
And it maintains the pagination of the original document. Magnifique.
But sometimes, there'll be something like this:
Whenever Starbuck is captured, there is usually a prolonged struggle where she has to save herself from gender norms being imposed upon her. However, when Apollo is captured, the situation is usually resolved fairly quickly via a Starbuck rescue. In ‘The Oath’, Apollo is wearing a sharp suit and tie appropriate for his new position in the government when he is captured. His masculine beauty is threatened by the grubby soldiers of both sexes who capture him. When Starbuck arrives on the scene, Apollo has his arms behind his back with a pistol to his head. Starbuck blows Apollo’s would-be executioner away, and Apollo is stunned: blood has sprayed all over his face and suit, and Starbuck is now in a tense standoff with the other mutinous captors.
...and, yeah, the author was definitely watching the same show I did. (Apollo spends a lot of the series stunned.)
(From Patrick B. Sharp, "Starbuck as 'American Amazon': Captivity narrative and the colonial imagination in Battlestar Galactica." In Science Fiction Film and Television, Volume 3, Issue 1, Spring 2010, pp. 57-78.)
Also, vaguely related to this; I've finally started using my Kindle for academic stuff. Turns out syncing a pile of pdfs to the Kindle is a snap, and as I've got the keyboard version (boo touch screen) it's quite easy to make notes after highlighting bits. I don't know how it would work with full textbooks, but for shorter works (~<30 pages) it's functional and simple. It means I can sit on a bus and flick through a stack of recent papers on a topic area, mark a few bits to come back to, save trees, and spend less time scrolling up and down on a pdf reader app.*
*it lags a bit, bless it, but I'm willing to accept that ...for now
The thing I was told the Kindle could do, but I never tried to make it do, actually turns out to be a time-saving thing to do, and not difficult at all.
And it maintains the pagination of the original document. Magnifique.
