English 1A: Cinerama—The Movies and Me

DH De La O, The Department of English and Comparative Literature at SJSU

Monday, December 7, 2015

Movie News 12.7.15

  • Gods of Egypt director apologizes for not casting more non-whites as Egyptians (Al-Bawaba)
  • Weekend box office: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2 reaches $524 million worldwide, while Spectre hits $792 million internationally (Forbes)
  • Theater chain plans Star Wars "endurance test" (Entertainment Weekly)
  • Entertainment Weekly names its best (and worst) films of 2015 (Entertainment Weekly)
  • Views of Warner Bros.' Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice's third trailer lag far behind Marvel's Captain America: Civil War's trailer (Dark Horizons)
  • Trailer of the week: Russell Crow and Ryan Gosling in The Nice Guys (YouTube) [NSFW]
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DH De La O,
The Department of English & Comparative Literature
@ San José State University

Office Hours: Mo/We 10:30 - 11: 30 AM, FOB 111
Phone: 408.924.5019
Email: dhdelao@gmail.com

ENGL 1A, Sec. 17—Mo/We 12:00 – 1:15 PM, BBC 121


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Syllabus

  • ENGL 1A, Fall 2015

DropBox

  • Citing Sources in MLA: The Basics
  • Crafting the Essay: Writing as a Process
  • MLA Style 101
  • On Wordiness: Exercises
  • Sample Multimedia Presentation (Bigfoot)
  • Sample Multimedia Presentation (Wine Customs)
  • Sample Multimedia Presentation (Wonder Woman)

eReader

  • "America" from West Side Story
  • "Dallas Buyers Club Piracy Case: Court Dismisses Many of Studio's 'Surreal' Claims" (Guradian)
  • "Elephant Love Medley" from Moulin Rouge!
  • "Good Morning" from Singin' in the Rain
  • "How Hollywood is Encouraging Online Piracy” (Scientific American)
  • "How People are Caught Illegally Downloading Music, Movie Torrents” (International Business Times)
  • "I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Misérables
  • "I Want to Hold Your Hand" from Across the Universe
  • "Mein Herr" from Cabaret
  • "My Man" from Funny Girl
  • "Real Cost of 'Free' Downloads” (USA Today)
  • "Summer Movie Piracy Rises: ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ Tops 2015 Downloads" (Variety)
  • "Summer Nights" from Grease
  • "The Man That Got Away" from A Star is Born
  • "Torrents for Dummies” (SloMo Tech)
  • "We Both Reached for the Gun" from Chicago
  • "Why I Stopped Pirating and Started Paying for Media” (Lifehacker)
  • "Why Movie Piracy IS Bad (And What to Do About it)” (ScreenRant)
  • “You Will Never Kill Piracy, and Piracy Will Never Kill You” (Forbes)

Writing Resources

  • Grammarly
  • OWL (Purdue University)
  • The Punctuation Guide

Film Resources

  • The Hollywood Reporter
  • Variety
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