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Calendar of Assignments

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Gangsters, Gold-Diggers, & Glamour Girls

 

Week 1.

Class Topic/Activity

Reading (for Class that day)

Weekly Writing

     

 

 

Th. 

8/24

Intro to the Course

N/A

 N/A

Week 2.

Hollywood’s American Teen

Tu. 

8/29

Character and Structure

McKee-1, PDF pages 2-11

Screenplay: Juno

 

Th. 

8/31

The “three-act” movie form

Finish Reading McKee-1

Film: Juno

Discussion Board, by Friday midnight

Week 3

Conventions of the Gangland Story

Tu. 

9/5

Continue discussing JUNO;

Intro to Sin Nombre

One of the "Supplemental Readings" from the Week 2 Page;

McKee-2, PDF pages 1-12;

Screenplay: Sin Nombre

 

Th.  

9/7

The Language of the Cinematographer

McKee-2, PDF pages 12-21

Film: Sin Nombre

Discussion Board, by Friday midnight

Week 4

Histories of Hollywood Horror

Tu. 

9/12

Class discussion

McKee-3, PDF to page 13

Screenplay: Get Out

 

Th. 

9/14

Character Arc

McKee-3, PDF 13-22

Film: Get Out

Discussion Board, by Friday midnight

Week 5

Character in Conversation: Postwar Gender Dynamics and the Rise of Feminism

Tu. 

9/19

Draft Script to Screen: Intro to Hollywood pilot

Read Mad Men pilot & watch ep. 1-2

Essay #1

Idea Draft

Th. 

9/21

Draft Script to Screen: Group Presentations

Mad Men 1x4 and watch ep. 3-4

Simone de Beauvoir, Ch. 10 selections

 

Week 6

 

Tu. 

9/26

Draft Script to Screen: Group Presentations

Friedan Ch. 1 and Ch. 3

Mad Men 1x6 and watch ep. 5 and 6

Essay #1

Rough Draft

Th. 

9/28

Draft Script to Screen: Group Presentations

Mad Men 1x8 and watch ep. 7 and 8

Simone de Beauvoir, Ch 14 selections

 

Week 7

 

Tu. 

10/3

Draft Script to Screen: Group Presentations

Read Mad Men 1x11 and watch ep. 9, 10, 11

Essay #1

Final Draft

Th. 

10/5

Draft Script to Screen: Group Presentations

Read Mad Men 1x12 and 1x13 and watch the episodes

 

Week 8

Character in Conversation: Popularized Formations of Racial Otherness

Tu. 

10/10

Secondary Sources on an aspect of the background of Chinatown narrative

Read: Interior Chinatown, 

through Act 3

 

 

 

Th. 

10/12

Secondary Sources on an aspect of the background of Chinatown narrative

Read: Interior Chinatown

Wen Mao poem on Anna Mae Wong

 

Discussion: "What I'm Reading and Watching" by the end of the weekend.

Week 9

Chinatown: Transition to Source Material and Texts in Conversation

Tu. 

10/17

Watch/Discuss Author Interview

Everything's an Argument, Chapter 1

Hagedorn, "Asian Women in Film"

Los Angeles Book Club: Charles Yu

 

 

Th. 

10/19

Visual Storytelling workshop

Everything's an Argument, Ch 2-3

Berkeley scholars on "Chinatown in Translation"

 

Week 10

The Research-based Essay

Tu. 

10/24

Workshop on Structuring Arguments

Reading: Everything's An Argument, chapters 4-5

By Tuesday before class start, Essay #2 (TIC)

Rough Draft to be uploaded to google folder

Th. 

 10/26

 

TIC Draft Discussion

 

Week 11

 

Tu. 

10/31

 

Reading: Everything's An Argument, chapters 6-7 

By Tuesday 11:59, Essay #2

Final Draft

Th. 

11/2

Workshop on Factuality and Arguments of Definition 

One-on-one meetings

 

Week 12

 

Tu.  

11/7

Essay Idea Pitches

 

Reading:

Everything's An Argument, ch's 8-9

Prospectus due in class 

Th.  

11/9

Understanding Evaluations

Reading:

Everything's An Argument, ch 10

Annotated Bibliography

Week 13

 

Tu.  

11/14

Class Symposium

Own Reading and Research

Section one + Storyboards 

Th.  

11/16

Class Symposium

Own Reading and Research

 

Week 14

 

Tu.  

11/21

Class Symposium

Workshop:

Own Reading and Research

Pitches + slides

Th.  

11/23

ACADEMIC HOLIDAY

Week 15

Tu.

11/28

Class Symposium

Own Reading and Research

Rough Draft of at least 3,000 words for the day's class.

+ Slide drafts for Chiang Festival 

Th.

11/30

 

CONCLUSION OF THE CLASS

Final essay (3500-4000 wd) due Wednesday, 12/6

S T U D Y  W E E K

 

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