目录

Chapter 1 Film Art and Film Appreciation

Chapter 2 Man and Society

Introduction

Film Focus

1Forrest Gump

2The Shawshank Redemption

312 Years a Slave

Chapter 3 Campus Life

Introduction

Film Focus

1MrHolland’s Opus

2Dead Poets Society

3Good Will Hunting

Chapter 4 Love and Romance

Introduction

Film Focus

1Titanic

2Casablanca

3Shakespeare in Love

Chapter 5 World War II and the Holocaust

Introduction

Film Focus

1Schindler’s List

2The Pianist

3Life is Beautiful

Chapter 6 Biopics

Introduction

Film Focus

1Gandhi

2Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

3The Lady

Chapter 7 War and Humanity

Introduction

Film Focus

1Gone with the Wind

2Saving Private Ryan

3Hacksaw Ridge

Chapter 8 Science Fiction and Fantasy

Introduction

Film Focus

1Avatar

2The Life of Pie

3Alice in Wonderland

Chapter 9 The World of Animation

Introduction

Film Focus

1The Lion King

2Frozen

3Zootopia

Chapter 10 Musical

Introduction

Film Focus

1The Sound of Music

2Chicago

3La La Land

1将电影艺术鉴赏基础知识与电影作品鉴赏有机结合起来。第一章“电影艺术与电影鉴赏”的介绍，为后续电影作品鉴赏提供必要的前期知识储备；通过之后的电影经典作品分析，学习者能更好地领会电影艺术魅力；

2电影作品按照电影相关主题进行分类，条理清晰；电影主题的介绍与电影主题相关影片推荐满足学习者对同类题材电影的需要，有很强的实用性、针对性；

3电影作品分析之前，每部电影所给的“电影宣传语（Tagline）”和简要的电影人物介绍方便学习者快捷地把握电影主要内容，为其后续的电影鉴赏做基础；

4电影作品分析（Film Review）是本书的重点。作品分析除了对电影的剧情进行较为详细介绍外，还结合不同电影题材和内容，有选择性地分析电影其他方面，如电影主题思想，导演创作背景、创作意图，电影艺术风格，电影叙事方式，电影的时代性、文化性、民族性，电影带来的社会影响力或争议，电影评论家或电影观众对影片的反应等内容，分析以求全面；

5电影作品分析之后精心设计的“讨论问题（Questions for Discussion）”更侧重电影的整体理解（Global Understanding）。该部分不仅考查学习者对电影作品的整体理解能力，而且为学习者更好地解读电影起到引导作用；

6所选择的影片兼顾思想性、艺术性、时代性，既有较早的经典之作，也有广受电影界好评的新作。绝大部分电影获过奥斯卡多项奖项及其他电影奖项，其中十部影片曾获奥斯卡“最佳影片”殊荣。

本书在编写过程中参考了国内外部分相关著作以及国内外相关网站，特别是“互联网电影数据库（Internet Movie Database）”“维基百科（Wikipedia）”及网站中“外部链接”相关内容。由于选材较广，网络资源来源较复杂，如有疏漏还望谅解，并在此向相关作者谨表谢意。

鉴于编者水平有限，错误和疏漏之处在所难免，敬请读者批评指正。

编者

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Film Art and Film Appreciation电影艺术与鉴赏1 Film and Film Appreciation

Film is an art

What is a film? Film can be understood from different perspectives:

A film, a movie or motion picture, is a series of still images which, when shown on a screen, creates the illusion of moving images A film is created by photographing actual scenes with a motion picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature (模型布景) models using traditional animation techniques, by means of computergenerated imagery and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques and other visual effects Contemporary definition of film is the art of simulating (模仿) experiences that communicate ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty or atmosphere by the means of recorded or programmed moving images along with other sensory stimulations

Film, one of the most influential mass media, is called the seventh art It merges all the other six forms of art: literature, painting, sculpture, music, architecture, drama, and adopts the technical achievements in natural science and applied science like acoustics (声学), optics (光学), electronics, mechanics, computer, etc; hence it has grown in a short while into a comprehensively expressive and significantly popular art form

Film is an audiovisual art It creates images, narrates stories, expresses feelings, states philosophy and attracts the audience by its sounds, colors and moving pictures, especially the latter Owing to this sensuous (感官的) nature, the audience is compelled (强迫) to accept certain roles or implied meanings, and is even controlled by the information the film conveys

Seeing a film or appreciating a film

Most people go to the cinema, enjoy the movie, and consciously or unconsciously absorb something that the director intends to impress on the audiences mind This group, we say, “see” the film It is quite different to “appreciate” a film, to have insight into the infinite content of the finite form An appreciator has to go through perceiving and comprehending processes, which then lead to emotionally and associatively thinking activity Film appreciation is a sort of reprocessing of artistic works, a sort of recreation Its a further involvement and exploration of aesthetic (审美的) activity

The seers and the appreciators have different ways of accepting film A seer is content with his or her perception (直觉), while an appreciator is trying to explore the more profound artistic and social value by interpreting the information, the association, the symbols and metaphors (隐喻，暗喻)

There are both emotional satisfactions but of different natures The pleasure of seeing a film comes from the seers emotional activities evoked (唤起) by the plot, and that of appreciating a film results from the appreciators managing to discover the mystery of the film, and the subsequent sense of success, that is, a sort of selfvalue affirmation (断言，肯定)

There are different levels of film knowledge A seer is content with the pleasure realized when he or she enjoys the film, but an appreciator is not When he or she takes a film as an artistic object, he or she means to go beyond the film itself, by commanding his rational (理性的) knowledge rather than perceptual (感性的) knowledge

An appreciator must be a seer first Normally before seeing a film, most people are totally ignorant about the plot, the characters, and the cast But after going to the cinema, they are quite taken with the pleasure of seeing the film, obsessed with the directors inventions in telling the story They have lost their own thinking by completely accepting the surface information the film conveys But a few seers are not content with remaining at this stage, so they manage to consult reference materials of all perspectives to learn the film synopsis (剧情介绍) and background, to know the filmmaking staff (playwright, director, cameraman, actor or actress) and their style, to grasp film knowledge like montage (剪辑画面，蒙太奇) etc Thus, some seers have become appreciators

Then, an appreciator will make selective use of the film, extracting the part, or element that needs further comprehension, and make an analysis This is the process by which the appreciator can sort out all the information and relationships; beyond that, he or she can also rearrange and synthesize (综合处理) the information All this calls for the appreciator absorbing new knowledge, theory, life experiences and being artistically accomplished, so that the film can be appreciated from more comprehensive and profound points of view

Last, an appreciator will go over the film which is truly worthy of better study This is quite different from seeing a film again because of its attractive plot The appreciator adopts the plot, the characters, the pictures embodying (体现) the directors ideas, but is not controlled by all these The film reviewing for the purpose of appreciation is actually a further involvement, a better assimilation (吸收，同化), a more subtle understanding It can really be a learning process……