What's the Deal?


This is the the blog of A.C. Abbott (Slater), instructor for Film Appreciation 1 Spring 2009, El Centro College.
This blog will be used as a forum for out -of-class commentary. All blogs will be linked to this one so that I can easily review them and so that others can view and comment on their classmates blogs.


20% of your grade will be derived from your Blog Entries: You will set up a blog preferably on blogspot [here]– if you do not already have one.  These must be posted on your blog and time stamped so I can see when they were posted. I will go through and check each blog, but I won’t tell you when, and occasionally I will make comments. Be creative with this opportunity. If you want to talk about a certain parody of a music video that you saw on youtube, try to post the video into your blog. The more links to things you are reading, videos you are watching, and copied pictures of ads you are seeing or even shows you are describing the better your grade will be. Please think about how you are ‘packaging’ your blog – cultivate its personality. If you want to mythologize yourself, and have your blog serve as some kind of strange performance art on meta-mythology, by all mean please do it! It will be graded based on the following criteria:

50% Timely Completion
50% Quality/Depth of Interpretation

If another student writes three solid paragraphs on Step Brothers and you have only written a one sentence summary and one sentence speculation about its mise en scene – your quality score will not be high.

Friday, December 5, 2008

TONIGHT HE COMES SCRIPT

http://www.hollywood-elsewhere.com/images/column/7108/tonight.pdf
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Friday, September 19, 2008


photo example
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Thursday, September 18, 2008

Tina Fey as Sarah Pailin on SNL

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Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Top Fifty List - a work in progress - not in order

1 Persona
2 Streetcar Named Desire
3 Shadows
4 Breathless
5 Contempt
6 The Goonies
7 Monster Squad
8 Wedding Crashers
9 400 Blows
10 Six Degrees of Seperation
11 Star Wars: Empires Strikes Back
12 Rebel Without a Cause
13 Half Nelson
14 Juno
15 Thank You for Smoking
16 Do the Right Thing
17 Secretary
18 Bad Education
19 All the President's Men
20 Closely Watched Trains
21 Bringing Up Baby
22 To Kill a Mockingbird
23 The Believer
24 American History X
25 The Frighteners
26 Back to the Future
27 Swingers
28 Bottle Rocket
29 Clerks
30 Chasing Amy
31 Guess Whose Coming to Dinner
32 Kissing Jessica Stein
33 The Searchers
34 Killer of Sheep
35 Harlan County USA
36 In the Land of Silence and Darkness
37 12 Angry Men
38 Toy Soldiers
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Thursday, January 3, 2008

Link to online film term glossary - helpful!

http://www.plu.edu/~jensenmk/271filmterms.html
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