课程简介
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。
课程大纲
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
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