同学们不喜欢学习，大家都喜欢看电影。备考托福是枯燥的过程，北京新航道小编整理了学习托福听力背景材料中的电影资料，希望对同学们的考试有帮助。

　　To get us started this semester I am going to spend the first two classes giving you background lectures about some basic cinematic concepts. Once you are a little more familiar with basic film terminology， we will be ready to look at the history of movies in the United States. You'll be expected to attend showing of films on Tuesday evenings at 7 o'clock in Jennings Auditorium. That's our lab. Then during our Wednesday seminar， we'll discuss in depth the movie we saw the night before. We are not covering silent films in this course. We will begin with the first talking motion picture， The Jazz Singer， released in 1927. The next week， we'll be looking at The Gold Diggers of 1933， a piece that is very representative of the escapist trend in films released during the depression. Some of the films we will be watching will probably be new to you， like Frank Capra's Why We Fight. Others you might have already seen on TV like Rebel without A Cause starring James Deane， or Stanley Cooper's Doctor's Strange Love. However， I hope you see even familiar film with new eye. In the last three weeks of the course， we will be watching films from the 1980s and you'll choose one of them as a subject for an extensive written critique. We'll talk more about the requirements of the critique later in this semester.

　　学习和自己的兴趣相结合，在快乐中学习知识。托福听力背景材料的积累需要同学们长期学习，相信会有一个不错的成绩。北京新航道小编预祝同学们在备考中取得优异的成绩。

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