HELP! I HAVE 20 MIN TO COME UP WITH A FINAL PROJECT PROPOSAL FOR MY CLASS "BRITISH LIT & CULTURE SINCE 1945"

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this is the end of the line...

there are about 2,000,000 people in my class doing joy division papers already.
she didn't like my james bond paper.
now what?

― rebecca s (rebecca S), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

there are about 2,000,000 people in my class doing joy division papers already.

hahahhaahahaha

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

ladies and gentlemen, the be-all and end-all of british culture of the last sixty years, i give you mr. ian curtis.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

be original ... do a project on robert smith! or mark e. smith!!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

I can only think of Iron Maiden right now, I'm useless.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

yes, aren't we so damn hip.
how about: the evolution and cultural significance of the full english breakfast?

kdfghvbuj ftiUOU ;OUGHUHG

would it kill you to know that i did a paper on robert smith last year--- FOR ANOTHER CLASS?!?!?1YESHAHAHAHAHHA

― rebecca s (rebecca S), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

Eastenders vs. Corrie

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

You could write about take that or pop idol or big brother or dick and dom in da bungalow...

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

tom ewing's influence on internet mentalism 2000-05.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

WHO IS THE GREATEST DR. WHO

― timelord (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)

Carry On films as proto-punk manifestos

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)

Write about Metal Mickey.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)

focus on giles (in buffy).

― nathalie doing a soft foot shuffle (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

i have until 3:25

― rebecca s (rebecca S), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

i suggested a project comparing walter potter/ damien hirst AND SHE SAID NONNOOOOO!

― rebecca s (rebecca S), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

why did she say no?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

because somehow, our professor never talked about visual arts. so i guess it's off limits.

― rebecca s (rebecca S), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

were lulu and petula TERRIBLY IMPORTANT to brit national identIty in WWII?

ok how about bumbling antiheroes: lucky jim and basil fawlty?

― rebecca s (rebecca S), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

haha hahahhaha lucky jim---->basil fawlty------> hugh grantHAHSGHDA

― rebecca s (rebecca S), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

NYU students write about Joy Division and get credit for it? This is bizarre to me.

― 57 7th (calstars), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

not to me. it's nyu.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

rebecca, you should say, "ever hear of a little band called THE BEATLES?!"

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

nyu students can get credit for JUST ABOUT ANYTHING

― rebecca s (rebecca S), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

ok. one more bumbling british man to round out my 3-- not hugh grant please.

― rebecca s (rebecca S), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)

http://www.grudge-match.com/Images/misterbean.gif

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

ricky gervais

― 57 7th (calstars), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

could i do sellers as clouseau even though he's pretending to be francais? hmmm

― rebecca s (rebecca S), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

'Folk as a post punk musical genre'

'The English civil war in late 20th century pub rock mythology'

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

one more bumbling british man

~~Tony Blair~~

I was going to nominate Sellers, or Atkinson? What about, Charlie Chaplin? Cary Grant, sometimes? Jim Broadbent? Alec Guinness, sometimes?

― The Mad Puffin, Wednesday, 20 April 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

those are viable suggestions probably.

― rebecca s (rebecca S), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

ok great onward.

― rebecca s (rebecca S), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

it would be neat, i think, if you talked specifically about british masculine identity within this topic.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

that ol mirage!

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

Mental illness in post-war british comedy writers

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

i always like the fall of empire aspect, the generation coming of age in the 1960s, having won wwII but lost an entire world of colonies at the same time. i played the kinks' arthur more than once in history seminars.

― carly (carly), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

Princess Diana.

― Ian John50n (orion), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

If I was your teacher, I would fail you.

― European Samuel Glickstein (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

http://dartsinfo.nl/imagetest/phil%20taylor.jpg

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

http://www.teletubbies.com/teletubbies.jpg

― Leon Future Coffee (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

playschool to bohbahs: ee ecky thump

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

Northern Soul as proto-rave culture. Trace a line from the Wigan Casino to Irvine Welsh (okay, he's Scottish, but Scotland is in the UK, no?).

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

UK pornography laws ( I am being serious here, I think it's fascinating how it went from raging debate over Lady Chatterly to Channel 5 and Razzle in Tesco)

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

UK pornography laws ( I am being serious here, I think it's fascinating how it went from raging debate over Lady Chatterly to Channel 5 and Razzle in Tesco)

Speaking of Razzle and other such UK literary periodicals... do they still have that "no Mr. Stiffie" rule?

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

The mull of kintyre rule still prevails.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 20:09 (twenty years ago)

Half man half biscuit - Britain's greatest folk act since the Clash (tm Andy Kershaw)

― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

Bbbut the Clash were shit!

― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

well there's the start of your discussion then!

― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

Speaking of Razzle and other such UK literary periodicals... do they still have that "no Mr. Stiffie" rule?

I saw a porno mag recently and it was more explicit in certain absurdly specific details compared to when last I read one (something like ten years ago or more). It would embarrass me to describe the differences, but I find it impossible to believe that any laws or regulations were passed that allowed these...new things.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 21:37 (twenty years ago)

i think enid blyton is more than apposite for this

― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

One of the most significant events ever in world culture, not just British culture since 1945, is Michael Moorcock and Hawkwind getting together. Write about that.

― mournblade, Wednesday, 20 April 2005 21:52 (twenty years ago)

mod as compared to punk, ska/new wave, teddy boy or raver: 40 years of youth culture. only with better clothes & rides.

― kingfish, Wednesday, 20 April 2005 22:39 (twenty years ago)

well, to be honest, you would be better tracing out the northernsoul-rave continuum in the north of england

warrington, burnley, cleethorpes, morley, wigan etc etc etc

― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 22:41 (twenty years ago)

Scritti Politti. Deconstruction, Communism, a trangression from scratchy post-punk to pop, hell yeah!

― Ian Riese-Moraine. To Hell with you and your gradual evolution! (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 22:54 (twenty years ago)

the 20 minutes has been over for many hours now.
she decided to approve walter potter/damien hirst and then my prof (who was sitting in) got all excited about dioramas and heritage and spectacles and I got all excited about getting to write about funny taxidermy. YYYAAAAAAAAAAY

― rebecca s (rebecca S), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 23:13 (twenty years ago)

yay! dioramas!

― kingfish, Wednesday, 20 April 2005 23:16 (twenty years ago)

oh i was going to say the book Absolute Beginners and mod culture.

― h0t h0t h0rsey (Carey), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 23:18 (twenty years ago)

Dissecting the Evolution of Varying Modal Forms of British Masculinity Thru Analysis of Pete Townshend's Facial Hair: 1963-1998

― kingfish, Wednesday, 20 April 2005 23:43 (twenty years ago)

Smack's influence on Brit fashion versus X's influence on Brit fashion.

― Roman (Roman), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 23:51 (twenty years ago)

green gartside

― lukey (Lukey G), Thursday, 21 April 2005 08:35 (twenty years ago)

well, to be honest, you would be better tracing out the northernsoul-rave continuum in the north of england

warrington, burnley, cleethorpes, morley, wigan etc etc etc

Cleethorpes Winter Gardens always claims to have been a major Northern Soul venue, going back years and years. I'm always slightly suspicious of anywhere in Cleethorpes claiming to be a major anything - does anyone know if they are justified?

Aw, go on!

― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 21 April 2005 08:39 (twenty years ago)

Mental illness in post-war british comedy writers

Damn, I'd love to write something on this. Sellers, Milligan, Hancock... it'd be really interesting. Probably done to death tho?

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 21 April 2005 08:42 (twenty years ago)

"1984 to Big Brother: Don't Say You Weren't Warned"

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 21 April 2005 08:44 (twenty years ago)

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