Hello there,

I don't know if this is the sort of thing anyone can help with here but I'm running out of ideas and getting desperate! I'm trying to find an anlalytical framework for my dissertation - "Neo-malthusianism and it's depiction in film - the case of Disney's WALLE"
I'm a geography student not a media student. I've got a long list of examples, metaphors, symbols and evidence but am struggling to fit it to a methodological framework. I originally planned on using content analysis for its replicability and quantitative approach but this doesn't work with the more subtle plot developments and metaphors. Semiotics also doesn't encompass everything, neither does discourse analysis. I'm worried that it'll end up being 10,000 words of "Niall says this (thats me), Niall says that", but then the marker will just say "this is all just opinion"
I'd thought of breaking down neo-malhusian ideals then "searching" the film for evidence of these things (although I know they're there already) - could something like that work?

Sorry if this isn't the sort of thing I should be posting here, but I thought it was worth a try!

Regards, Niall