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英语电影与文化

South China University of Technology via XuetangX

Overview

       本课程是华南理工大学开设的语言与文化类通识课,2022年被认定为广东省高校一流本科课程。


       课程主要从文化批评的视角,对英语电影进行学习和研究,旨在帮助学生了解电影的基本知识、提高欣赏英语电影所具备的基本语言理解能力,培养艺术、审美的能力,并增强对电影文本阅读、审视、分析和批评的能力。


        课程包括三个部分,共十二个单元,第一部分为电影的形式和叙事,从俄国形式主义视角对电影进行解读,学习丰富的电影表现手法及其效果。第二部分以当代文化理论为基础,旨在为学生提供一个历史和文化的视角来深入理解英语电影、学习文化理论在电影文本中的应用,同时提高学生将电影作为一种体现主流文化现象及内涵的文本来“阅读”的能力。第三部分是综述,结合第一、二部分所学理论和批评方法,综合运用到具体的电影批评实践中。每个单元都有至少一课影片赏析案例,既包括具有历史社会意义的经典之作,也包括体现当代多元文化的优秀作品,帮助大家熟悉和运用电影批评和分析的方法。


        在课程结束之时,希望大家能够了解基本的电影表达技巧,掌握电影作为文化建构的基本知识。同时,希望大家能够通过对电影的“细读”、反思,成为一位见解独到的观影者。

Syllabus

  • Part I Form and Narrative Unit 1 Film Form I.
    • 1.1 Overview
    • 1.2 Mise-en-scène: setting
    • 1.3 Mise-en-scène: lighting
    • 1.4 Mise-en-scène: character appearance
    • 1.6 Screen space and composition
    • 1.7 Case study
    • Unit 1 单元测试
    • 1.5 Mise-en-scène: performance
    • Talking about Films
  • Unit 2 Film Form II
    • 2.1 Introduction of cinematography
    • 2.2 Cinematography: angle of framing
    • 2.3 Cinematography: camera distance
    • 2.4 Cinematography: mobile framing
    • 2.5 Case study
    • Unit 2 单元测试
  • Unit 3 Film Narrative I
    • 3.1 Overview
    • 3.2 Openings, closings, and story development
    • 3.3 Range of story information: restricted or unrestricted
    • Unit 3 单元测试
  • Unit 4 Film Narrative II
    • 4.1 Overview
    • 4.2 Editing and speed of narrative
    • 4.3 Chronology and continuity editing
    • 4.4 Flashbacks and editing
    • Unit 4 单元测试
  • Part II Film Critique Unit 5 Film Semiotics
    • 5.1 Overview
    • 5.2 What is semiotics?
    • 5.3 Christian Metz
    • 5.4 Roland Barthes (Part 1)
    • 5.5 Roland Barthes (Part 2)
    • 5.6 Case study: 2001: A Space Odyssey
    • Unit 5 单元测试
  • Unit 6 Film Ideology
    • 6.1 Overview
    • 6.2 Origins of film ideology
    • 6.3 Media and technology
    • 6.4 Cultural hegemony and counterhegemony
    • 6.5 Case study: Star Trek
    • Unit 6 单元测试
  • Unit 7 Film and Gender
    • 7.1 Overview
    • 7.2 Woman and film
    • 7.3 Feminist film theory and practice
    • 7.4 Case study: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
    • 7.5 Masculinity
    • 7.6 Queer Cinema
    • Unit 7 单元测试
  • Unit 8 Film and Race
    • 8.1 Overview
    • 8.2 Race and racism
    • 8.3 Stereotypes of racial representation
    • 8.4 Whiteness
    • 8.5 Case study: Rabbit-Proof Fence
    • Unit 8 单元测试
  • Unit 9 Film and Ethnicity
    • 9.1 Overview
    • 9.2 Edward Said and Orientalism
    • 9.3 Cultural Imperialism
    • 9.4 Self-orientation
    • 9.5 Case study I: Mulan
    • 9.6 Case study II: M Butterfly
    • Unit 9 单元测试
  • Unit 10 Film and Psychoanalysis
    • 10.1 Overview
    • 10.2 Early Background
    • 10.3 Jacques Lacan
    • 10.4 Laura Mulvey
    • 10.5 Case Study: Shutter Island
    • Unit 10 单元测试
  • Part III Synthesis Unit 11 The English Patient: Form and Narrative
    • 11.1 Overview
    • 11.2 Story
    • 11.3 Character: the enigmatic English patient
    • 11.4 Mise-en-scène: setting
    • 11.5 Narrative
    • 11.6 Music
    • Unit 11 单元测试
  • Unit 12 The English Patient: Critical Analysis
    • 12.1 Signs and Symbols
    • 12.2 Nationalism in The English Patient
    • 12.3 Almasy as the misogynist and Katharine as a feminist
    • 12.4 Kip as the Other
    • Unit 12 单元测试
  • 期末测试
    • 思维导图
      • 每周电影短评 Quick Review
        • 大作业Talking About Films
          • 佳片推荐(学生海报作品)
            • 电影批评与赏析(学生视频作品)
              • 课程反思
                • 问卷
                  • 问卷

                Taught by

                QU Wei, WU Jianguo, Rong Rong, Shirley Cchang, Dan Zhu, Li Yun, ZHAN Shuangjuan, , and Mitch Jones

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