Annotated Bibliography Assignment

Bibliography by Jerome Calica

By Jerome Calica, member of Love You Forever Team

1. Lukens, Rebecca J., A Critical handbook of Children’s Literature: Third Edition. Glendview, Illinois: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1986.

            “To fail to apply critical standards to children’s literature is to say in effect that children’s literature is inferior to adult literature that children will not presumably benefit from good literature or be harmed by poor writing. This handbook takes the opposite view: children’s literature should be judged by the same standards as adult literature, with some small differences and children can benefit enormously now and for a lifetime by exposure to writing of high quality. The approach to children’s literature offered in this handbook, along with wide reading in children’s books and serious practice of the evaluative skills discussed here, will develop critical thinking and increase understanding of and pleasure in literature. This knowledge provides a firm basis for discriminating among the good and the poor in children’s’ books.”

            Using Lukens’ standards of children’s literature, I will be able to determine the true value of the works of Robert Munsch. Having this handbook as a guide to judge the many aspects of juvenile literature, we can better determine how Love You Forever has become such a great story throughout its conception.

2. Tatar, Maria. The Classic Fairy Tales: Norton Critical Editions: New York, W. W. Norton, November 4, 1999.

The cultural resilience of fairy tales is incontestable. Surviving over the centuries and thriving in a variety of media, fairy tales continue to enrich our imaginations and shape our lives. This Norton Critical Edition of The Classic Fairy Tales examines the genre, its cultural implications--and its critical history. The editor has gathered fairy tales from around the world to reveal the range and play of these stories over time. The Classic Fairy Tales focuses on six different tale types: "Little Red Riding Hood,' "Beauty and the Beast," "Snow White," "Cinderella," "Bluebeard," and "Hansel and Gretel." It includes multicultural variants of these tales, along with sophisticated literary rescriptings. Each tale type is preceded by an introduction, and annotations are provided throughout. Also included in this collection of over forty stories are tales by Hans Christian Andersen and Oscar Wilde. "Criticism" collects twelve essays that interrogate different aspects of fairy tales by exploring their social origins, historical evolution, psychological dynamics, and engagement with issues of gender and national identity.

The many criticisms found within Maria Tatar’s The Classic Fairy Tales point out historical and social contexts within fairy tales and children’s literature that will be of aid in our study of Love You Forever. In applying these contexts it will be easier to understand the choices and trends that Musch follows that allows his literature to be so captivating.

3. TAPoRware Visual Collocator <http://tada.mcmaster.ca/Main/TAPoRwareVisualCollocator>

The Visual Collocator displays collocates of words using a graph layout. Words which share similar collocates will be drawn together in the graph, producing new insight into the text. Any word can be double-clicked to fetch its collocates. Any word can be removed from the graph, and new words can be added using the text field. Additionally, words can be made "sticky", then dragged around to new positions, creating a user defined layout. This tool uses the prefuse library. * This tool requires the JRE (v1.4.2 and up) in order to work properly.

The portal was developed by OpenSky Solutions led by James Chartrand. Nick Goupinets was the principal programmer. Others at OpenSky include Andrew MacDonald, Anton Andreev, Oleg Yampolsky, Paul Mooney, Alex Korobkine, and Alex Cachia. The portal design and development at McMaster was led by Dr. Geoffrey Rockwell, the TAPoR Project Leader and Dr. Stéfan Sinclair, the Research Director. Michael Mallon of the Humanities Media and Computing Centre manages the TAPoR servers, Michael Pikolon supports the lab and Mikael Andersson provides ordering support. Rocco Piro and now John Bell manage the Humanities Media and Computing Centre. Lian Yan provided programming support and administrative account support. Shawn Day developed the recipes. Alex Stevens developed interface designs and the look of the project site. Joanna Dacko developed interface skins and the tutorial. Audrey Carr developed the Tour and, working with Joanna, ran an extensive usability study with help by Dr. Brian Detlor.

Using the visual collocator, it will be possible to gain quantitative analysis in determining the natural flow of literature. This flow will be represented in the visual aspects of our project.

4. Photoshop Adobe <http://wwwimages.adobe.com/www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/photoshop/pdfs/photoshop_overview.pdf>

Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editing program developed and published by Adobe Systems. It is the current and primary market leader for commercial bitmap and image manipulation, and is the flagship product of Adobe Systems. It has been described as "an industry standard for graphics professionals."

Photoshop will be used in the Love You Forever project to edit and alter photos and images that are collected. Through Photoshop we will be able to alter color and use filters within the program to change perspective and allow artistic freedom.

5. iMovie, Apple Inc.

iMovie is a video editing software application created by Apple specified towards home movie production. It was originally released in 1999 as a Mac OS 8 application bundled with the first FireWire-enabled Macintosh model. Since version 3, iMovie has been a Mac OS X only application bundled in the iLife suite of Macintosh applications. iMovie imports video footage to the Mac using the FireWire interface on most MiniDV format digital video cameras. The user can edit the video clips, add titles, and add music. Effects include basic color correction and video enhancement tools, and transitions such as fade-in, fade-out, and slides.

The version that will be used by our group is iMovie HD 5. This version will allow for us to use HDV 720p and 1080i resolution. A suite of programs that are integrated with iMovie include iPhoto, iTunes and iDVD. The program will be beneficial in allowing us to have a consistent work flow as far as the editing process is concerned. The program allows the splitting, lengthening and shortening of clips and photographs. These tools will be implemented regularly throughout our project.