Goodness...

Jun 30, 2010 21:12

I've been going on a character research tangent again. Don't worry, it's not asking your opinion.

As Lois was originally written during the late 30s when female reporters were starting to be more known (an interesting tidbit-Eleanor Roosevelt held women only press conferences) I've decided that Lois had a little family inspiration to be a reporter besides the usual reasoning we usually have.  It's not a major undercurrent but I wanted the original undercurrent for Lois Lane which was where in the late 30s to still be present somewhat.  She was inspired to become a reporter somehow and because of that I'm doing a little digging on female reporters during the War.  I've found some books but I'm trying to decide if I should buy them.  It's not that I don't want to add them to my usual collection (large though it currently is... I'm certain if I added too many more hubby's going to gripe again) it's just I still have so many other things I need/want to buy for research as it is.  When hubby found out how many words I had written for this story he asked why I didn't just write the story as my own.  I pointed out that I would pretty much have to create an identical character to Superman which I'm sure DC and the Siegal/Shuster heirs probably wouldn't be too fond of.  I'm certain I could write my own character which was a female reporter and not make it more than a homage to Lois Lane and the women reporters of the 1930s but Kal-El is a totally different character in that respect to me.

If your interested in the books I'm looking at here's the books/research I'm considering getting...

"Women Who Wrote the War"
by Nancy Caldwell Sorrel
"Front Page Girls: Women Journalists in American Culture and Fiction" by Jean Marie Lutes
"The Girls in the Balcony: Women, Men and the New York Times" by Nan Robertson

*quietly asks* Um, has anyone heard/read these and are they worth buying?  I'm seriously considering them but I thought I would ask.

I already know I want to add the "Torchy Blane Complete Movie Collection: Archive Collection (1936).  I love the classic movies and getting the movies which I've read somewhere were among the main inspiration for Lois Lane would be a major highlight for me.

Getting these books are more than just research for character writing for me.  It has to do with history in general.  They were an important force of change at the time.  What they wrote would have been read by millions of Americans. What they said would make a difference in the world and possibly in policy.  As a history buff/semi-historian (as a docent at a history museum I think I somewhat qualify as a historian only in the manner of research and presenting the knowledge of that history to the next generation) I feel it important I do as much as I can to understand events in history so that I can better write/research them when it comes time.

Last week saw my artist/animator/brother and was embarrassed to tell him that I had become "obsessed with Superman" (as hubby put it).  What's more is that when I was asked how it happened I couldn't exactly say because I didn't exactly know how the obsession began (at least the daily forum/fandomy stuff).  As least I didn't blurt out that I was working on an epic of a fanfic.

life, ftgoe, museums, superman, feminism, lois lane, fan, story writing

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