當前，西方文化借助于英語影視媒介在我國大為流行，而文論中的文化批評流派也大行其道。作者長期從事西方文論的教學與研究，針對國內讀者的需求，且結合在美國紐約州立大學的教學與研究的實際，撰寫了《英語電影與西方文化批評流派》。在內容上《英語電影與西方文化批評流派》對英語電影的批評方法的介紹與應用方面加大了比重，達到13種，均為國內外最新的學術成果概述和評論。同時《英語電影與西方文化批評流派》還注重了從理論到實踐的過渡，每一種批評方法均增加了批評范例。
本書共有八個部分分別論述了英語電影對西方大眾文化的影響作用，大眾文化與電影發(fā)展簡史，影響西方大眾文化的主要電影節(jié)與著名的影視機構，電影作品的評價標準與文化價值，英語電影的分級及其專業(yè)語匯，英語電影的主要題材及其藝術特征，文藝思潮及其對電影的影響（從古典主義到后現代）和文藝作品的十三種批評流派。本書是英語語言文學類本科、研究生的必讀書目，也可成為影視文學愛好者的參考讀物。
Preface
1.Why We Study Film in English Language Arts?
2.Why We Need to See Films and Read This Book?
3.Languages and Cultures Reflected from Film
4.The Important Impact of Films on Daily Life
5.Differences Between a Book and a Film
6.Words for Instructors
Chapter One Popular Culture and Film History
1.Film and Popular Culture
2.History of Motion Picture
3.Producing a Motion Picture
4.Film Distribution
Chapter Two International Festivals and Film Studios
1.International Film Festivals
2.Intemational Film Companies
3.Western Festival Markets and Western Discourse Effect
Chapter Three Film Criteria and Cultural Values
1.No Scientific Measurer
2.Individualism and Different Cultural Psychology
3.Moral Values and Cultural Psychology in China
4.Film Characters Forming under the Chinese Context
5.Edward Said and Orientalism
Chapter Four Classification and Vocabulary of Films
1.Classification in Britain
2.Classification in USA
3.Classification in Australia
4.Question： Emphasis on Sex Versus Violence
5.Vocabulary of Film
Chapter Five Film Genres and Artistic Feature
1.Genre and Methodology to Classify
2.Analysis Examples of Selected Main Genres
Chapter Six The Literary Movements and Impact to Films：From Classicism to Modernism
1.Romanticism Movement
2.Realism Movement
3.Modemism to Post-modernism
Chapter Seven Literary Critical Approaches to Film
1.Cultural Criticism （Cultural Studies）
2.Post-colonial Criticism
3.Structuralism and Semiotics Criticism
4.Historical and New-historicism Criticism
5 Formalism Criticism and New Criticism
6.Sociological Criticism and Marxist Criticism
7.Gender Studies （Feminist Criticism）
8.Psychological Criticism
9.Mythological Criticism （Archetypal Criticism）
10.Reader-response Criticism
11.Deconstructionist Criticism （Poststructuralist， Post-moderrusm）
12.Biographical Criticism
13.Ecocriticism （Ecological Criticism）
Reference
Americans believe that they must be self-supported to own their freedom. Itis impossible to do what they want to do freely if they depend on parents，government or any organization excessively. American youths usually move out oftheir families when they are 18 years old or graduate from a university. PerhapsChinese people think the relationships between children and parents are apatheticin America. VirtuaUy the parents are willing to force their children out of familiesto make them self-supported. They don't need to live together with one or twogenerations to keep their emotions. The old are self-supported too. They preferliving without their children and won't accept others' help easily. In Americanfamilies， mothers seldom ask children not to do this or that. At most， motherswill tell children to go into their own rooms if children are too naughty. Therooms are theirs， and they can fix up the funuture and name their toys by themselves， and these are all in order to cultivate them to be self-supported.
Once a person becomes self-supported， he can just take the responsibility which he should. When several people go to have a mealin a restaurant， they will pay for their own part of the meal if nobody announces that he will pay for the meal beforehand. In those three American pictures， Forrest Gump and the other two persons all dare to take their own responsibility and pursue what they want to. They don't depend on others and can lead a wonderful life. Forrest had food opportunities to go to a university， join the army and develop his own career. He did not break lus promise and bought a shrimp boat to complete Bubble's dream. Sam wanted to be a father and was willing to take this heavy responsibility. Carol liked to learn some working skills and then entered a college. She actively put in a claim that she wanted to live alone when her mother did not think Carol could be independent without anybody's help. At last， Carol did it. Aments are not thesame as common people. They react and speak much slower than common people. All the aments are the same when they were bom to this world. But how could they be self-supported and take their own responsibility？-Because of American individualistic culture and cultural psychology. In the society filled with individualistic culture， children are educated to be self-supported and everybodyaround them does so. Therefore， American children are able to be self-supported， including aments.
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