英语选修课程 第一章.pptVIP

The Teaching Program of Appreciating Cinema The teaching objectves: To guide students towards an understanding of how movies can be better understood and appreciated. To develop their English-language competence, better their knowledge of the Western way of life, and improve their understanding of English-speaking culture through thinking in English and using the English language to discuss issues related to the subject. Lecture 1 History and Genre 电影史与电影类型 This chapter attempts to: Introduce the history of early cinema, classical Hollywood cinema, and post-classical Hollywood cinema with regard to technological, industrial,and artistic developments. Introduce the concept of genre and, in particular, the categorization of genres and the functions of genre. History and Genre History and genre are the two basic parameters(参数) used when categorizing films: we want to know both when a film was produced and what kind of film it is. The history of film is simplified by its shortness. In the case of Hollywood, it is enough to talk about three major historical periods---those of early cinema, clssical Hollywood cinema, and post-classical Hollywood cinama. Each of these periods is characterized by certain technological developments and industrial organization. Artistically, too, films from a given period of film history tend to display certain characteristic feature. History 1st stage: Early Cinema--- Although the technological groundwork（基础） for cinema was laid by the invention of photography in 1826, it would be many decades before it could be adapted to create a motion picture(电影).The main problem with these early photographs---from the point of view of perspective filmmaker（电影制作者）---was that the exposure time was too long for the production of moving images. History Faster exposuers were later made possible,but only on glass plate film that could not be fed through a cemera or projector (投影仪). The key breakthrough came in 1889 with the introduction by Kodak of