大学英语四级影视鉴赏.pdfVIP

What is film? • Film, or Am. and Aus. movie, is a series of moving pictures, usually shown in a cinema or on television and often telling a story. • As one of the most influential mass media, it has struggled to achieve its proper place as a reputable art form. It merges all the other forms of art: literature, painting, sculpture, music, architecture, drama, and adopts the technical achievements in natural science and applied science like acoustics, optics，electronics，mechanics, and computer, etc. • Film is unlimited not only in its choice of subject matter but also in the scope of its approach to that material. • The motion picture has progressed step by step from drawings, to photographs, to projected, images, to sound, to color, to wide screen, to 3-D. • people enjoy having wide selections of entertainment forms, yet film still has its artistic charm and appeals to people of different ages from all walks of life. Film History • The US was the first country to turn film into a popular form of entertainment and an important industry. • The first full-length “ story ” film was The Train Robbery 《 火车大劫案》 of 1903. • D. W. Griffith ‟s famous Birth of Nation ( 《 一个国家的诞生 》, 1915 ) was the first major feature film made in the US. • The decade 1921~1931 was called th “gold period of silent films ” • Thanks to the innovations in technique, content, and structural forms, Hollywood„s film making culminated for the first time during the 1930s and the 1940s, and many distinguished films came into being, such as Citizen Kane ，Great Dictator, Waterloo Bridge , Gone with the Wind, Rebecca , Casablanca etc , • In the 1950s American movies experienced