{"id":3757,"date":"2015-03-06T10:59:58","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T21:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/?p=3757"},"modified":"2016-08-01T10:08:13","modified_gmt":"2016-07-31T21:08:13","slug":"manuscript-march-if-my-thesis-were-a-film-genre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/?p=3757","title":{"rendered":"Manuscript March: If My Thesis Were a… Film Genre!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Friday! Time to ease back a bit and let off a little steam. So gather ’round, thesis-writers, and let’s play a game.<\/p>\n

It’s called “If My Thesis Were A” (IMTWA for short) and to play, you have to liken your thesis to something. For instance, you might play If My Thesis Were a Pet or If My Thesis Were A Politician. Then you have to decide which pet or politician your thesis would be. (For example: a ferret, or Richard Nixon, or perhaps a ferret who resembles Richard Nixon.) Then you give your reasons. Got it? Good.<\/p>\n

OK, here we go! Today, we’re playing If My Thesis Were a Film Genre<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Now, my apologies to video store clerks (do they still exist? I don’t know and therefore clearly need to get out of the library more often) but it is going to be impossible to choose a shelf to put my thesis on.<\/p>\n

It’s possibly a thriller, because every time I look at my chapter structure I bite my nails in Hitchcock-level suspense. Will this structure last through my next supervisor meeting? Will vast swathes of text need to be reappropriated to form a new chapter? Is this structure any more logical than every other potential structure?<\/p>\n

\"I<\/a>
I see dead ends!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But it’s also clearly a horror. I frequently find myself in a dark room of a Saturday night, hearing strange noises in my introduction, and approaching cautiously while sensing the horrifying danger of something evil lurking there. Don’t open the door to the introduction! I tell myself, but it’s too late. I open the door and: AAARRGH! A logical inconsistency leaps out at me, hacking my Saturday night into oblivion.<\/p>\n

Scratch that. My thesis is an arthouse film. It’s slow, contemplative, and you frequently need subtitles to get through it.<\/p>\n

No, actually, my thesis is a comedy. I can only infer that because sometimes I end up laughing hysterically when I’ve been working on it for too long.<\/p>\n

\"self<\/a>
Self-portrait at 3am after a mammoth writing session.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Well clearly I’m indecisive. Help me out here, AUT postgrads. Where would you place your thesis on the shelves of your local Video Ezy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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