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Forward-thinking lecturers at Cambridge University’s Corpus Christi college are allowing student undergraduate Amrou Al-Kadhi to indulge his innermost desires, saying it’s OK for his 10,000-word dissertation to be based around the life and times of Lady Gaga.
The student, who is studying the history of art, say he first had to explain who Gaga was to university bosses, before winning them over, telling the Standard: “I raised the influence of pop art-style critiques of consumer culture in Lady Gaga’s performances and videos, and the legacy of second wave feminist performance art in them as well.”
One of the key factors in winning approval of his course supervisor was when Al-Kadhi pointed out the “Warholian aesthetic” in Gaga’s video for Telephone. [Standard]
@Gary – it’s no different from your dissertation on SEGA, the wonder years and where it all went wrong.
500 words of fact, then 9,500 words of erotically-charged fan fiction.
So Gary, just how do you make erotically charged fiction about SEGA products? Inquiring and depraved minds need to know…
Well, I’d usually start with Cream The Rabbit…
http://sonic.wikia.com/wiki/Cream_the_Rabbit
…I totally already wrote my 20 000 word Masters dissertation on Gaga. At Sussex. In 2010. And got a Distinction for it. Just saying.
To be fair it’s not much different from the dissertation I had to write on phallic imagery in Terminator 2. Degrees aren’t what they used to be.
Crap generic music propped up with pseudo-artistic gimmicks. She/he is like a Chris Morris sketch. how many words was that?