Module One English Film Outlook Unit 1 English Film History 1.Early Cinema 1.1 Birth of Motion Pictures 1.2 Headquarters to Hollywood l.3 Early Directors 1.4 Early Actors 2.Classical Hollywood Cinema 2.1 Silent Films to Sound Films 2.2 New Film Genres in 1930s 2.3 Directors 2.4 Actors 3.New Hollywood and Post-classical Cinema 3.1 Technological Innovation 3.2 Rise of Independent Producers 3.3 Revival 3.4 Directors 3.5 Actors 4.Contemporary Cinema 4.1 Films Between Late 1970s and 1980s 4.2 Films in 1990s 4.3 Films in the 21st Century Exercises Unit 2 The World of Films 1.Film Studios l.1 Development of Film Studios 1.2 Notable Film Studios 2.Film Genres 2.1 Defining a Genre 2.2 Analyzing a Genre 2.3 Main Film Genres 3.Film Awards and Film Festivals 3.1 Film Awards 3.2 Film Festivals Exercises Unit 3 Language of Film 1.Film Terms 2.Film Vocabulary 2.1 Vocabulary on Filmmaking and Filmmaker 2.2 Vocabulary on Film Company 2.3 Vocabulary on Film Award 2.4 Vocabulary on Actor and Actress 2.5 Vocabulary on Film Genre 2.6 Vocabulary on Film Technique Exercises Unit 4 Classic Films 1.American Films 1.1 City Lights 1.2 Gone with the Wind 1.3 Citizen Kane 1.4 Casablanca 1.5 Singin' in the Rain 1.6 Vertigo 1 7 The Godfather 1 8 Star Wars 1 9 Raging Bull 1 10 Schindler's List 1 11 The Lion King 1 12 The Shawshank Redemption 1.13 Forrest Gump 1.14 Titanic 1.15 Avatar 2.British Films 2.1 Great Expectations 2.2 The Red Shoes 2.3 The Third Man 2.4 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning 2.5 Lawrence of Arabia 2.6 Gandhi 2.7 A Room with a View 2.8 Four Weddings and a Funeral 2.9 Sense and Sensibility 2.lO The English Patient 2.11 Trainspotting 2.12 Elizabeth 2.13 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone 2.14 Slumdog Millionaire 2.15 The King's Speech Exercises Module Two Literature in English Films Unit 1 British Literature Overview 1.The Old English Period and Middle English Period (450-1500) 1.1 Old English Literature (e.658-1066) 1.2 Middle English Literature (1100-1500) 2.The Renaissance (1500-1660) 2.1 Elizabethan Era (1558-1603) 2.2 Jacobean Period (1603-1625) 2.3 Late Renaissance (1625-1660) 3.The Neoclassical Period (1660-1798) 3.1 The Restoration (1660-1700) 3.2 The Augustan Age (1700-1750) 3.3 The Pre-Romanticism (1750-1798) 4.The Romantic Period (1798-1837) 5.The Victorian Period (1837-1901) 6.20th Century Literature (1900-2000) 6.1 Modernism (1900-194:5) 6.2 Postmodern Literature (1945-2000) Exercises Unit 2 British Literature and English Films 1.The Renaissance in Films 2.Neo-classical in Films 2.1 Daneil Defoe: Robinson Crusoe (1719) 2.2 Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels (1726) 3.Romanticism in Films 3.! Lord Byron: Don Juan (1818-1823) 3.2 Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice (1813) 4.Realism in Films 4.1 Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist (1818-1823) 4.2 Bronte Sisters: Jane Eyre ( 1847)/Wuthering Heights(1847) 4.3 Robert Louis Stevenson : Treasure Island (1882) 4.4 Thomas Hardy: Tess ofd'Urbervilles ( 1891 ) 5.20th Century Literature in Films 5.1 Virginia Woolf: Orlando (1928) 5.2 George Orwell: Animal Farm ( 1945)/1984(1949) Exercises Unit 3 American Literature Overview 1.Colonial Period and Revolutionary Period 1.1 Colonial Period (1620s-1776) 1.2 Revolutionary Period 2.Romanticism 2.I Influence of European Romanticism on American Writers 2.2 The Unique Characteristics of American Romanticism 2.3 Representative Writers and Their Works 3.Realism (1860s-1890s) 3.1 Realism in American Literature 3.2 Representative Writers and Their Works 4.Modernism in American Literature (1914-1915) 4.1 Background of Modernism 4.2 Modernism in Literature 4.3 Representative Writers and Their Works 5.The Contemporary American Literature (1945- ) 5.1 American Poetry since 1945: the Anti-tradition 5.2 Postmodern Literature 5.3 Beat Generation 5.4 Minority Literature 5.5 Representative Writers and Their Works Exercises Unit 4 American Literature in English Films 1.Romanticism 1.1 Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter l.2 Herman Melville: Moby Dick/Moby-Dick 2.Realism 2.1 Henry James: The Wings of the Dove 2.2 Mark Twain: The Million Pound Note 3.Naturalism 3.1 John Griffith London: The Call of the Wild 3.2 Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie 4.Modernism 4.1 Lost Generation 4.2 The Jazz Age 4.3 The Great Depression 5.Contemporary Works 5.1 Alice Walker: The Color Purple 5.2 Amy Tan: The Joy Luck Club Exercises Module Three Culture in English Films Unit 1 Introduction 1.Culture in Films 1.1 Theme 1.2 Film Criticism 1.3 Film Appreciation 1.4 Cultural Concerns in Films Exercises Unit 2 Historical Perspective 1.Brief introduction to British History 2.Brief Introduction to American History 3.Recommendation -- List of Historical Films Exercises Unit 3 Religious Perspective 1.Brief Introduction to Faith in Christianity 1.1 Faith in Jesus as Belief, Trust and Reliance 1.2 Faith in Jesus as Faithfulness, Loyalty and Commitment 1.3 Essential Elements in Christian Faith 2.Film Appreciation -- The Man from Earth 2.1 Panoramic View of The Man from Earth 2.2 Religious Reflections on The Man from Earth 3.Recommendation List- Religious Perspectives Exercises Unit 4 Educational Perspective I.Essential Functions of Education 1.l Functions of Education Towards Individual 1.2 Functions of Education Towards Society I.3 Functions of Education Towards Nation 2.Film Appreciation-- Good Will Hunting 2.l Panoramic View of Good Will Hunting 2.2 Appreciation of Good Will Hunting -- Theme of Education 3.Recommendation List- Educational Perspectives Exercises Unit 5 Technological Changes 1.History of Technological Changes 1.1 The Potential Future of Technological Revolution 1.2 Relation to "Technological Revolution" and "Technical Revolution" 2.Film Appreciation -- A.I.Artificial Intelligence 3.Film Appreciation -- Interstellar 4.Recommendation List- Technological Perspectives Exercises Unit 6 Social Issues 1.Social Issues Worth Solving 2.Film Appreciation -- American Beauty 3.Film Appreciation -- Erin Brockovich 4.Recommendation List- Social Perspectives Exercises References