当前，西方文化借助于英语影视媒介在我国大为流行，而文论中的文化批评流派也大行其道。作者长期从事西方文论的教学与研究，针对国内读者的需求，且结合在美国纽约州立大学的教学与研究的实际，撰写了本书。在内容上本书对英语电影的批评方法的介绍与应用方面加大了比重，达到13种，均为国外最新的学术成果概述和评论。同时本书还注重了从理论到实践的过渡，每一种批评方法均增加了批评范例。

蔡圣勤编著的《英语电影与西方文化批评流派》共有八个部分分别论述了英语电影对西方大众文化的影响作用，大众文化与电影发展简史，影响西方大众文化的主要电影节与著名的影视机构，电影作品的评价标准与文化价值，英语电影的分级及其专业词汇，英语电影的主要题材及其艺术特征，文艺思潮及其对电影的影响（从古典主义到后现代）和文艺作品的十三种批评流派，本书是英语语言文学类本科、研究生的必读书目，也可成为影视文学爱好者的参考读物。

Preface

 1.Why We Study Film in English Language Arts?

 2.Why We Need to See Films and Read This Book?

 3.Languages and Cultures Reflected from Film

 4.The Important Impact of FiLms on Daily Life

 5.Differences Between a Book and a Film

 6.Words for Instructors

Chapter One Popular Culture and Film History

 1.Film and Popular Culture

 2.History of Motion Picture

 3.Producing a Motion Picture

 4.Film Distribution

Chapter Two International Festivals and Film Studios

 1.International Film Festivals

 2.International Film Companies

 3.Western Festival Markets and Western Discourse Effect

Chapter Three Film Criteria and Cultural Values

 1.No Scientific Measurer

 2.Individualism and Different Cultural Psychology

 3.Moral Values and Cultural Psychology in China

 4.FiLm Characters Forming under the Chinese Context

 5.Edward Said and Orientalism

Chapter Four Classification and Vocabulary of Films

 1.Classification in Britain

 2.Classification in USA

 3.Classification in Australia

 4.Question: Emphasis on Sex Versus Violence

 5.Vocabulary of Film

Chapter Five Film Genres and Artistic Feature

 I.Genre and Methodology to Classify

 2.Analysis Examples of Selected Mare Genres

Chapter Six The Literary Movements and Impact to Films:

 From Classicism to Modernism

 1.Romanticism Movement

 2.Realism Movement

 3.Modernism to Post-modernism

Chapter Seven Literary Critical Approaches to Film

 1.Cultural Criticism ( Cultural Studies)

 2.Post-colonial Criticism

 3.Strncturalism and Semiotics Criticism

 4.Historical and New-historicism Criticism

 5.Formalism Criticism and New Criticism

 6.Sociological Criticism and Marxist Criticism

 7.Gender Studies (Feminist Criticism)

 8.Psychological Criticism

 9.Mythological Criticism (Archetypal Criticism)

 10.Reader-response Criticism

 11.Deconstrnctionist Criticism (Poststrncturalist, Post-modernism)

 12.Biographical Criticism

 13.Ecocriticism(Ecological Criticism)

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