Lit Review

Thesis Statement:

Intersectionality has become a fairly new topic in nowadays feminsim theory discussions. I want to explore what intersectionality is and how to apply it to my work.

Sources:

Race and gender - 

sexuality 

Capstone

Interactive Comic

What is my Critical Position?

What is my thing going to be?

Introduce Theory

Apply Theory to thing

I want to make an interactive comic that explores intersectionality through character aesthetics.

My main theory I will be using for my Capstone Project is “Intersectionality”.

I will apply intersectionality to my capstone project through character aesthetics.

I am going to explore the Fantasy genre as well as the History of “Elves”.

Throughout the many fantasy stories, the mythical creatures have always stuck to the same look. Many fantasy games/movies represent the Elves as noble and WHITE.

I want to challenge this by having more diverse fantasy characters, particulary elves.

I am thinking about making the Elves “Arabic” influenced. (Sinbad)

I also want to explore the aesthetics of mythical creatures/Elves. How did the fantasy genre come to be? I thought about exploring the Greek mythology, and how the mythical creatures have changed over the years and what used to be considered beautiful and how that has changed over the years.

Does it make sense with your world/story?

Orientalisim

avoid western perspective on arabic

decent explantation of intersectionality

what you are making and how

why interactive comic why is it suitable for this discussion

how does the theory help address this stuff

why chose comic/2D

address the comic more than the interactive part

Reza Aslan – books, what does he say about Islam?

Idea (?)
What are the orginis of Fantasy? - come from Religion? - Greek mythology, Egyptain mythology – Islam – how the religion has changed over the years

Explore Religion in my comic

Inspiration

Saga – intersectionality, many diverse characters, challenged the sci-fi/fantasy genre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reza_Aslan

https://www.google.co.nz/search?rlz=1C1GIGM_enNZ682NZ682&biw=1920&bih=979&q=No+god+but+God&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAONgFuLUz9U3MM0xSkpWAjMtTQzSkrSkspOt9JPy87P1E0tLMvKLrEDsYoX8vJzKR4zB3AIvf9wTlvKatObkNUYXLjyKhdS42FzzSjJLKoVkuHilEJZpMEhxcyG4PABXbmV8igAAAA&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjHy9mniM7MAhUHjpQKHV8xDPYQri4IIw 

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B5eLGX88sRrVWGRMRElQUXoteU0 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Egypt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt%E2%80%93United_States_relations

Capstone Project

What is my thing? What am I making?
An interactive comic that explores intersectionality through character aesthetics.

I have had the idea to make a comic since 2010 (?), which I had worked on over the years. I had stopped working on it when I thought it was "perfect". I want to re-explore my idea and look at what I wanted to say through my comic.
Looking back at it now, I realize that I wanted to tackle stereotypes, racism and sexism. The story was meh, because my main focus was on the characters.
I want to work on the story more and re-imagine the characters through intersectionality as that covers all of those issues I wanted to tackle.
I think doing it through character aesthetics is the most efficient way, because