托福听力必背的 经典段子3

托福听力必背的 经典段子3

　　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．