英美概况第十二讲movies_and_music.ppt

What is “Popular culture” (pop culture)? Popular culture is everything from “common culture”, to “folk culture” to “mass culture”, especially it is the culture originating in US. It is now widely acknowledged that popular culture can and must be analyzed as an important part of US material, economic and political culture. It can be expressed itself through nearly every medium, including movies , music, and many others. I the development of movies The Lumiere brothers in Paris first projected motion pictures in 1895 Thomas Edison’s Vitascope in 1896 Edison discovered the kinetoscope - in 1893 The develop of the movie a method of entertainment (vaudeville shows, arcades) the commercial value ( melodramas and comedies) American movies academic research American professional filmmaking and theoretical education exhibitors→ film exchanges→ American studios →famous film-making company From nickelodeons to studios(制片厂) Hollywood became the American movie capital after 1913 The Luxury cinema take over the place of Nickel theaters The first generation of star actors included Charlie Chaplin, William S. Hart, Greta Garbo, Rudolph Valentino, Gloria Swanson, and Will Rogers. Directors of the day were D.W. Griffith, Maurice Tourneur, J. Stuart Blackton and Mack Wennett. After the WWI The produce of the silent film The Kid The Gold Rush Chaplin What are the current five “majors” filmmaking industries? Fox/ MGM/ PKO/ Warner Brothers/ Columbia / Universal 好莱坞有八大电影公司： 环球影片公司(Universal Picture Co.) 派拉蒙影业公司 (Paramount Pictures, Inc.) 20世纪福斯电影公司 (20th Century-Fox Film Corp.) 哥伦比亚影业公司 (Columbia Pictures Corp.) 华纳兄弟影业公司 (Warner Bros.) 米高梅公司 (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) 联美公司(United Artists Corp.) 雷电华影业股份有限公司 (RKO) 其中资格最老的依次是米高梅、20世纪福斯、 华纳兄弟、派拉蒙和PKO。 The movie began to become the art -20th century First: Dance playground Then: Little Theater Last: All