蔡圣勤主编的《英语电影文学与批评理论》内容简介：The research shows that young adults spend nearly 50% of their leisure timewatching films and videos. In the past one hundred years the film has become avitally important part of contemporary culture, which is becoming increasinglysaturated by visual media today. We are called to acknowledge and analyze ourgreatest sources of entertainment and information as they influence the warp and woofof our lives.

The analysis of media arts is essential to the health of democratic society. Ourculture depends on literacy of the electorate, which gleans its information largelyfrom visual media. We must hone our skills as critical viewers by beingknowledgeable in the most popular art form of our time and possessing the analyticalskills to understand and interpret films.

Words for Instructors

 1. What Do Our Students Need to Know?

 2. How Should the Film Be Viewed?

 3. How to Break up a Film?

 4. Teaching Films Pre-Screening

 5. The Best Way to Screen a Film

 6. Technical Aspects of Film Study

 7. Film and Literary Criticism

Chapter One Avatar: Gender Studies (Feminist Criticism) 

 1. Avatar: The Modern Criticism Reflected from the Film

 2. She/he: Sexual Identity

 3. Common Space in Feminist Theories

 4. The Three Waves of Feminist Criticism

 5. Other Branches of Gender Studies

 6. The Piano: Feminism in Motion Pictures

 7. Resources of This Theory

 8. Selected Essay and Quotations: Toward a Feminist Criticism 

 9. Typical Questions

Chapter Two Sleepless in Seattle: Formalism Criticism and New Criticism

 1. A Close Analysis on Sleepless in Seattle

 2. Formalist Criticism

 3. Russian Formalism. Neo-Aristotelianism

 4. New Criticism

 5. Resources of the Theory

 6. Selected Essay and Quotations: The Formalist Critic

 7. Typical Questions

Chapter Three Dances with Wolves: Cultural Criticism ( or Cultural Studies)

 1. Western Film: Dances with Wolves

 2. What Is Cultural Study?

 3. The Chief Goal of Cultural Studies

 4. Interdisciplinary Approaches

 5. Selected Essay and Quotations: What Are Cultural Studies?

 6. Typical Questions

Chapter Four A Little Princess: Post-colonial Criticism

 1. Successful Adaption and Discomfiting Trace

 2. History Is Written by the Victors

 3. A Unique Pempective on Empire

 4. Power. Hegemony. and Literature

 5. Resources of This Theory

 6. Selected Essay and Quotations: "Everyday Use" and the Black Power Movement

 7. Typical Questions

Chapter Five The Artist: Structuralism and Semiotics Criticism

 1. The Artist (2011) : lntertextual Relation to the Classics

 2. Linguistic Roots

 3. Patterns and Experiences

 4. Structuralism in Literary Theory

 5. Peirce and Saussure

 6. Sign Systems

 7. Resources of This Theory

 8. Selected Essay and Quotations: Poststructuralist Cultural Critique

 9. Typical Questions

Chapter Six American Outlaws : Historical and New-historicism Criticism

 1. American Outlaws: A Eulogy to the History

 2. Historical Criticism

 3. Higher Criticism and Goal

 4. New Historicism

 5. Resources of New-historicism Theory

 6. Selected Essay and Quotations: the Argentine Context of Borges' Fantastic Fiction ( Historical Criticism)

 7. Typical Questions

Chapter Seven Braveheart: Sociological Criticism and Marxist Criticism

 1. Braveheart: Contradictions and Absences

 2. Sociological Criticism

 3. Whom Does It Benefit?

 4. The Material Dialectic

 5. The Revolution

 6. Resources of This Theory

 7. Selected Essays and Quotations

 8. Typical Questions

Chapter Eight The Mask: Psychological Criticism

 1. The Mask: a Motive Analysis on Stanley Ipkiss

 2. Freud: the Unconscious. the Desires. and the Defenses

 3. ld. Ego and Superego

 4. Oedipus Complex

 5. Psychoanalytic Interpretation on Film A Little Princess

 6. Resources of This Theory

 7. Selected Essay and Quotations: The Destiny of Oedipus

 8. Typical Questions

Chapter Nine Sabr/na: Mythological Criticism ( Archetypal Criticism)

 1. Sabrina: a Cinderella Story

 2. Applications of Archetype

 3. Carl Jung: Collective Unconscious

 4. Resources of This Theory

 5. Selected Essay and Quotations: the Collective Unconscious and Archetype

 6. Typical Questions

Chapter Ten The Bond Films : Reader-response Criticism

 l. 007 Series and Action Films Sequels

 2. Schwarzenegger's Changes in The Terminators

 3. What Is Reader-response Criticism?

 4. What Do You Think?

 5. Resources of This Theory

 6. Selected Essay and Quotations: An Eskimo "A Rose for Emily"

 7. Typical Questions

Chapter Eleven Babel: Deeonstructionist Criticism( Poststructuralist. Post-modernism)

 1. Babel : Four Parallel Narratives of the Structure

 2. Modern Narrative Patterns

 3. The Center Cannot Hold "

 4. What Does Your Meaning Mean?

 5. Can Language Do That?

 6. What's Left?

 7. Modernism vs. Postmodernism

 8. Post-Structuralism and Literature

 9. Resources of This Theory

 10. Selected Essay and Quotations: The Death of the Author

 11. Typical Questions

Chapter Twelve The Color Purple : Biographical Criticism

 1. The Color Purple: Author and Director

 2. Application of This Approach

 3. Peripatetic Biographical Criticism

 4. Recognition of Otherness

 5. Connections to Other Modes of Criticism

 6. Selected Essay and Quotations: Chekhov's Attitude to Romantic Love

 7. Typical Questions

Chapter Thirteen The Gods Must Be Crazy: Eco-criticism

 1. The Gods Must Be Crazy and Environment

 2. Evolution of Eeo-criticism in Literary Studies

 3. Ecological Thoughts in Films

 4. Further Source of Ecological Criticism Aesthetics

 5. Selected Essay and Quotations: Critiquing the Canon

 6. Typical Questions

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