托福听力段子3.
文科段子:电影艺术
To get us started this semester I am going
to spend the first two classes giving you background lectures about
some basic cinematic concepts. Once you are a little more familiar
with basic film terminology, we will be ready to look at the
history of movies in the United States. You’ll be expected to attend showing of films
on Tuesday evenings at 7 o’clock in Jennings Auditorium. That’s our lab. Then during our Wednesday
seminar, we’ll discuss
in depth the movie we saw the night before. We are not covering
silent films in this course. We will begin with the first talking
motion picture, The Jazz Singer, released in 1927. The next week,
we’ll be looking at The
Gold Diggers of 1933, a piece that is very representative of the
escapist trend in films released during the depression. Some of the
films we will be watching will probably be new to you, like Frank
Capra’s Why We Fight.
Others you might have already seen on TV like Rebel without A Cause
starring James Deane, or Stanley Cooper’s Doctor’s Strange Love. However, I hope you see even familiar film
with new eye. In the last three weeks of the course, we will be
watching films from the 1980s and you’ll choose one of them as a subject for an
extensive written critique. We’ll talk more about the requirements of the critique later
in this semester.
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