Errrm

This may be an exceedingly stupid question, but...

if there's a sentence somewhere in my thesis that mentions that as a child I read Donald Duck and Tintin, does that constitute something that needs to be properly referenced/documented? And how in the world would one go about documenting something like that? I mean, what would be 'the' date and place of publication for Donald Duck? It's not like that's a single book, or even a single series... it's a multimedia juggernaut. Tintin isn't quite as bad, but also very difficult to document if it should be necessary, due to that passing reference, to incorporate it into the list of works cited...

Help?

Here's an even better one for you:

If I mention in a footnote that the author I'm writing about mentions, in one of *her* footnotes, that one detail of one panel of hers was vaguely inspired by the film "Heavy Metal", which in turn was inspired by a European comics anthology, and I mention that comic anthology's name, which is identical with the film's name, does that mean that I need to include info on both the original anthology and on the film in the list of Works Cited? (Incidentally, I know neither the film nor the anthology, myself, except in the sense that I have heard of them.)

And, as an encore:

If I mention that the name of the city most of Finder is set in is taken from the Narnia books of C.S. Lewis, do I need to dig up publication information on the Narnia books? I don't even own those... (I suppose I can look them up in the catalog of the British Library, though.)

I suspect the answer is 'yes' on all three...

*sigh*

Documenting sources. Hours of fun.

Amazing very early 20th century colour photographs

http://www.albertkahn.co.uk/index.html

There's a nine part BBC documentary series about this collection of photographs and films airing on arte at the moment. Since I don't have TV I can't watch it. Since my parents' video recorder for some weird reason won't record arte properly, I can't record it. *cries*

Today's state-of-the-world-related reading rec:

http://greenfyre.wordpress.com/2009/02/21/the-time-of-fear-is-over/