The Paper

1. The Paper Some Basic Stuff You Should Know

2. Your paper should consist of: • A title page, with the title of your paper & your name • The body of the paper • Margins of at least 1" on top, bottom, & sides • Typed! • Double space, except for block quotations • Indent 1st line of each paragraph 10 spaces • 1st page should be numbered at the bottom center (or not at all); all following pages should be numbered in the upper right corner

3. An endnote page(s) • This should be a separate page(s) • The title ENDNOTES or NOTES should appear centered at the top • Single space within notes, double space between notes • Number pages consecutively with the rest of the paper • Use 1 staple in the upper left corner; no covers! • SPELLING counts! Use a dictionary &/or spell checker

4. Direct Quotations • All direct quotations in your paper should be noted • The quotation should be marked by quotation marks; the superscript note number should appear outside of the punctuation (if any) & the quotation marks

5. A recent issue of Singapore's The Straits Times reported that WDI ” is preparing the ground for a large-scale assault on the heart[s], minds and pockets of consumers in South-east Asia." 1 • 1Ann Williams, "Disney puts the Mickey in Asia," The Straits Times (Singapore), 3 December 1993, Life sec., 11.

6. It is most often best to mention the author of the quotation in the text • However, it is not always necessary to cite the source of a quotation

7. Block Quotations • All direct quotations of 4 + lines should be set off from the rest of the text as block quotations • Indent the entire block 5 spaces from the left margin only • Double space between the block & the text; single space within the block • DO NOT put the block quotation in quotation marks! • The superscript note number appears after the final punctuation of the block quotation

9. Ellipses & Additions in Quotations • If you leave some unnecessary words out of a quotation, mark this ellipsis with 3 full stops, or 4 at the end of a sentence • If you add words to facilitate understanding, put the added text in brackets • In either case, do not change the meaning of the quotation with your alterations

11. Titles of Articles • The titles of articles are always placed in quotation marks • Houshang Golmakani, "Beyond the Shadow of a Doubt," Cinemaya 22 (Winter 1993-94): 55. • The titles of articles or chapters in anthologies are also placed in quotation marks • Teshome H. Gabriel, "Towards a critical theory of Third World films," in Jim Pines and Paul Willeman, eds. Questions of Third Cinema (London: British Film Institute, 1989), 31.

12. Titles of Books and Films • BOOK titles are always either underlined or italicized • David Bordwell, Making Meaning (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1989), pp. 263-74. • FILM titles are always either underlined or italicized • The Wizard of Oz • Hellraiser

13. Footnoting or Endnoting • REFERENCE NOTES • All direct quotations • All "bits" of information • Films featuring Muslim actresses who do not observe the aurat, or Islamic dress code, have also be banned.3 3"Kelantan firm on ban on video games, billiards," The Straits Times (Singapore), 3 January 1993, 16.

14. Content Notes • Films featuring Muslim actresses who do not observe the aurat, or Islamic dress code, have also be banned.3 3Part of the reason these traditional arts are deemed unacceptable to Islamic purists is that in pre-Islamic Malaysia they were used for spiritual and religious purposes, including healing. See Tan Sooi Beng, "Counterpoints in the Performing Arts of Malaysia," in Kahn and Loh, 287.

15. 5Jonathan Rosenbaum, "Walt Disney," in Richard Roud, ed., Cinema: A Critical Dictionary vol. 1 (New York: Viking Press, 1980), 277. 5. Jonathan Rosenbaum, "Walt Disney," in Richard Roud, ed., Cinema: A Critical Dictionary vol. 1 (New York: Viking Press, 1980), 277.

16. Mass Market Periodical • Ann Williams, "Disney puts the Mickey in Asia," The Straits Times (Singapore), 3 December 1993, Life sec., 11. • Scholarly Journal • Houshang Golmakani, "Beyond the Shadow of a Doubt," Cinemaya 22:55. OR • Houshang Golmakani, "Beyond the Shadow of a Doubt," Cinemaya 22 (Winter 1993-94): 55.

17. Articles in Anthologies • Teshome H. Gabriel, "Towards a critical theory of Third World films," in Jim Pines and Paul Willeman, eds. Questions of Third Cinema (London: British Film Institute, 1989), 31.

18. Articles in Newspapers • Signed • A. Kadir Jasin, "Sloppy Work Causes Embarrassment," New Sunday Times, (Kuala Lumpur), 27 March 1994, 17. • Unsigned • "We Have the Right to Ban Films, Says Dr M," The Star (Kuala Lumpur), 24 March 1994, 2.

19. Interviews • Steven Spielberg, "We Can't Just Sit Back and Hope," interview by Dotson Rader, Parade Magazine, 27 March 1994, 6.

20. Citation from Secondary Source 3. Richard Thompson, "Meep Meep!," Film Comment, May-June (1976): 37, quoted in Bill Nichols, Movies and Methods (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976), 126.

21. More Than One Source in a Note • Claude A. Buss, Contemporary Southeast Asia (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1970), 37-38; D.G.E. Hall, A History of South-East Asia, 4th ed. (London: MacMillan, 1981), 923-28; and J. Kennedy, A History of Malaya, 2nd ed. (London: MacMillan and Co. Ltd., 1970), 265-82.

22. Subsequent References to the Same Source

23. More Than One Work by the Same Author 1. Jonathan Rosenbaum, "Dream Masters l: Walt Disney," Film Comment Jan.-Feb. 1975: 64. 2. Jonathan Rosenbaum, "Dream Masters II: Tex Avery," Film Comment Jan.-Feb. 1975: 70. 3. Rosenbaum, “Dream Masters I,” 65. 4. Rosenbaum, “Dream Masters II,” 72.