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Lotte Reiniger.

German film director, Charlotte Reiniger was born the 2nd of June 1899 in Berlin and died on the 19th of June 1981 in Dettenhausen. Reiniger was a pioneer of silhoutte animation, this is a form of animation in which the characters are only visible by black silhouttes, created through the use of back lighting and fully or well articulated puppets.

She is credited with: Thumbelina, Sleeping Beauty, The Grasshopper and The Magic Horse. ‘Das Ornament des verliebten Herzens’ or translated as ‘The Ornament of the Heart in Love’, is a four minute short film directed by Reiniger featuring two robotically moving figures entangled in what seems to be string. The music by Heloise Palmer perfectly encapsulates the emotion of anticipation that carries through the piece. Tender for its shortness, the range of movement is fascinating and extremely smooth.

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You gain interests from the courses you take, yes, and the articles you read, whichever. You find a grad school based on if their department caters to those interests, and if the faculty want to put up with you research project (which they’ll only want to do if it’s similar to their own research). But it sounds like you already have some interests/ideas/fields in mind, so here ya go: 

I say write it out. Chose 3 of your interests, and then for each of those areas, simplify it further until you got a sentence like “I am interested in Turkey, but specifically about how Americans understand Turkey and Turkish people” or “I am interested in witchcraft, but specifically I’m interested in American witchcraft” or “I am interested in like, arrowheads, but only like arrowheads in like Montana” idfk whatever. 

Then you have to search google dot mutherfucking scholar for “Turkish American perceptions” or “American witchcraft” or “Arrowheads Montana”. Find the source/paper/essay/article most cited (make sure it’s scholarly, find the PDF through your institution or illegally online, love u jstore u paywall fuck), read THE WHOLE THING, and if you can imagine reading 234 more articles/chapters/bOOKs JUST LIKE THAT ONE, then it’s a feasible option. After that, take ur nifty article, reread their lit review section, and start reading the true experts that THEY CITED from their reference list. Follow that line forever. If you realize three or four articles in that you’d rather get hit by a bus, try your next interest. 

Actually, yeah! And thank you! Just keep in mind that what *I personally* will know about, are going to be early modern European artists who were possibly or certainly enslaved at some point, ok? It’s a narrow field of research, so please ask more people, and check more times and regions.

First and foremost I’d suggest Juan de Pareja, who was enslaved but was emancipated later:

[portrait on left by Velázquez; self-portrait on the right]

You should also check the “Artist of Color” tag to see if there is overlap there with YOUR topic. Conversely, here’s a link to search for “Enslaved”, that will have to do with topics and works related to people who were enslaved.

Research makes you think differently by engaging you in the creation of new knowledge.

Research is an ongoing learning process as experiments don’t necessarily go as planned or give expected results.

Research doesn’t stop. Every proposal, paper or project in the world of research provides insights, answers, and details, along with posing new questions.

Research stretches your mind, and challenges and tests you to think of new ideas, new reasons, and new possibilities.