History of Movies

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Забайкальский государственный педагогический университет им. Н.Г. Чернышевского

Татарникова Л.Р.

Ушникова О.В.

Students’ Guide to American Film History, Film making and Film Evaluating

Американский кинематограф: история и современность

Учебно – методическое пособие на английском языке по практике устной и письменной речи

Чита – 2004

Contents

Part I. History of the Motion Pictures…………………………………………......4

1. The Beginning…………………………………………………………………..4

2. MMPS ………………………………………………………………………….8

Comprehension Check 1 ………………………………………………………….9

3. The Star System ……………………………………………………………….12

4. Isolation and Growth …………………………………………………………..13

5. Roaring Twenties ……………………………………………………………...14

6. Telling Stories with Film: Content Trends ……………………………………15

Comprehension Check 2 …………………………………………………………18

7. Coming of Sound ……………………………………………………………...20

8. The Studio Years ………………………………………………………………22

9. Competition and Change: Television ………………………………………….25

Comprehension Check 3 ………………………………………………………….27

Topics for Final Discussion ………………………………………………………28

Part II. Film Genres ………………………………………………………………30

Assignment 1 ……………………………………………………………………..32

Assignment 2 ……………………………………………………………………..34

Assignment 3 ……………………………………………………………………..36

Part III. The Modern Concept of Form in Film and Types of Film Form ………..42

The Abominable Dr. Phibes ……………………………………………………...48

North by Northwest ………………………………………………………………52

An Outline for motion Picture Review ………………………………………….. 55

Phrases to be Used in Film Analyses …………………………………………….56

Literature ……………………………………………………................................59

PART I

HISTORY OF THE MOTION PICTURES

Read and translate the following texts and do the comprehension check after them.

Make up a vocabulary list based on the texts.

1. THE BEGINNING

Motion pictures and television are possible because of two quirks of the human perceptual system: the phi phenomenon and persistence of vision. The phi phenomenon...