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Speedrun Anthology Notes
Luke Healy: extract from 'Americana (And the Act of Getting Over It)', 2019
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Key events covered are the Great Famine (1845-52) where the Irish had to live on mainly potatoes, as well as the 2008 global financial crisis that affected Ireland's economy detrimentally, bringing back emigration on a mass scale
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Images are very similar, slow paced framing
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Lucy Mangan: Feel Good Review, 2020
Context
Mangan is a British columnist known for writing for the Guardian
- She often writes about: everyday life, relationships, family, reading, mental health, motherhood, guilt, and the little things that shape how we feel
Mangan often mixes humour with reflection, using personal anecdotes and observations to explore wider cultural or emotional issues
Feel Good (2020) id a comedy-drama TV show made by Mae Martin, who also stars in it
It tells the story of Mae, a comedian in London, starting a new relationship, while also dealing with past struggles with drugs and questions about identity
The show came out at a time when TV was starting to show more honest stories about mental health and LGBTQ+ lives
- Instead of just being a "feel good" romance, it mixes humour with real issues, making it relatable and modern for audiences in 2020
When Feel Good landed in 2020, the world was in lockdown, everyone was stuck at home
Analysis
Informal, conversational, often witty in tone using portmanteau and idioms
- "romcom will have you head over heels"
Antithesis to attract certain customers
- "as thrilling as it is anxiety-making"
- "like an angel adulterated"
Lots of pop culture references to keep audience entertained and interested
- "Mary Poppins"
- "Bart Simpson"
- "Lisa Kudrow"
Zooms into the summary of the show, talking more about heavier topics in it
- "The impact of toxic family influence"
Uses rhetorical question to highlight importance of not being alone in times for the pandemic
- "What is any friend if you don't feel you can introduce your loved one to them?"
Has a cyclical structure with evaluative adjectives as though throughout the show it is immaculate
- "Mae Martin's immaculate romcom"
- "It is not only an immaculately written and paced piece of work"
Lexical field of remedy, makes the audience feel better about the hard times
Art Lab with Emily Graslie: The World's Smallest Artwork, 2021
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In honour of her efforts towards science education, had a butterfly named in her honour "Wahydra Graslieae"
Created a YouTube video in Nov 2013 about women in STEM, which received a high level of views and media attention
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Has been an advocate both for science education and mental health, opening up about her struggles with bipolar disorder
Analysis
Adjacency pairs of greeting shows a friendly environment for the young viewers
- "Emily: Hi James! / James: Hellooo, hi."
Polysyndeton antonyms to show his broad knowledge - she has respect for him, so the audience must too, in a friendly manner
- "From habitats large and small and near and far"
Puns are used to entertain the audience
- "I want to first focus on his... focus"
- "pee-cicle"
Ellipses for drawing out humour, focusing on pee, things children would find funny
- "and... frozen pee? Presumably his? ...although we don't know."
Hedges to soften the heavy facts being laid onto the audience
- "you kind of have to wonder"
- "the miraculous dancing creatures only he could see kind of made him"
Expresses humorous defensiveness
In the actual conversation, there are non-fluency techniques being portrayed such as filler words - being put across the whole text contrasts the facts in the voiceover
- "It's like going on a safari you know"
Maggie O'Farrell: Extract from "I am, I am, I am", 2017
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A text from O'Farrell's memoir 'I am, I am, I am: Seventeen Brushes with Death"
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This chapter is called "Cranium" - a lorry was just a centimetre away from striking a fatal blow to her cranium
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This memoir focuses on how a person felt about an event rather than the factual details, evoking an emotional reaction from readers
Analysis
Written in 3rd person despite being a memoir could relate to her near death experiences, being out of touch w/ reality
Symbolism of acorn being like soulmates, made for each other
- "Each acorn will fit only inside its own cup. No other cup will do."
Anonymity of the man suggests forbidden love, lingering feelings she is ashamed of
- "The woman is me. The man is - well never mind."
Tricolon suggests the complexity of the situation they are in, the parallelism shows the reasons why they should not be together and the reasons they should be together are of equal value
- "They have fallen in love, instantly, surprisingly, dizzyingly"
- "other hearts, other minds, other situations"
Semantic field of longing
- "he looks at hers, she looks at his."
- "tanned slice of stomach"
- "she wants to bite him, like a peach"
Dog symbolises how his longing is dangerous for her, that if she tries to keep it alive, it will only get her hurt
- "she's acting entirely by instinct, thinking only protecting this animal, who has appeared from nowhere, who approaches the world and all it has to offer with such trust, such unalloyed joy."
Dog connotes loyalty, perhaps loyalty to him - her feelings are stubborn and stuck on him
Semantic field of death ... short sentences represent how life is short
- "current-less, motionless"
- "Curtains. Kick the bucket. Carked it. End of the line. Lights out. Bitten the dust. Gone the way of all flesh. Given up the ghost."
Zoom into his body and the science behind it, suggests that she cares only for other's physical wellbeing, not hers, as if any logic for her own safety is discarded and put into loving him
- "his side, to his chest, to the muscle and bone nearest his heart"
- "Picturing the molecules of him"
Sophie Arthur: 'About' blog page from Soph Talks Science, 2018
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Science is not a widely liked or talked about subject but Arthur hopes to get rid of the stereotypes and make it more interesting/exciting for the reader
Arthur was winner of the 'individual content creator of the year' 2018 making her more inspirational to the reader and attracts a wider audience
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Analysis
Sibilance in title of her blog to create a catchy, memorable impact on readers - introduces herself with a nickname, as if already close because of the shared interest of science
Informal register, being humble about herself and using exclamatives and colloquial language to create a comfortable environment for her readers
- "Just me talking about science!"
- "Welcome to my little corner"
Subject specific lexis to create ethos for her readers
- "metabolism and low oxygen keeps stem cells pluripotent"
Humorous imagery shows she recognises stereotypes but chooses to act against it in an optimistic way
- "show the world that being a scientist is not just one thing: an old man in a white coat spending forever hunched over a lab bench!"
Direct address to connect with the readers
- "I am incredibly passionate about talking science out of the lab and to the people that matter - YOU!"