ENGL 1A: Don't You Forget About Me—The Eighties Strike Back

DH De La O, The Department of English & Comparative Literature @ San Jose Staté University

Did you know there exists four different versions of "Do They Know It's Christmas"? (Yahoo!News)
A look back at an '80s Christmas for Gen Xers and early Millennials (BuzzFeed)
Here are the sixteen best Christmas movies of the 1980s (Parade)
From 1983: Could electronic mail undermine conventional mail? (Guardian)
A look back at the cinema of 1982 (CBR)

DH De La O, The Department of English and Comparative Literature at San José State University

Office Hours:

Mon/Wed 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. (by appointment and via Zoom only)

Courses:

30 (50218): Tue/Thu from 7:30 – 8:45 a.m.

96 (48354): Tue/Thu from 9:00 – 10:15 a.m.

Please see syllabus for Zoom meeting details

“Opinion: Why Schwarzenegger, Stallone and Nostalgia for ‘80s Action Movies are Back” (Los Angeles Times)
“R/AskReddit: If You Were a Kid in the 80s, What are You Most Nostalgic About That You Feel Kids are Missing Out on Today?” (Reddit)
"R/AskReddit: What Was it Like Being a Child in the 1980s?” (Reddit)
“Six Lessons We Learned from Growing Up in the '80s” (NBC News)
“Ten Reasons Why Being a Kid in the '80s was the Best” (HuffPost)
“Twenty-five Reasons We're Glad We Grew Up in the '80s” (BestLife)
“What the Early Days of HBO Mean to Gen X” (MoveWeb)