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《英语电影与西方文化批评流派》。在内容上《英语电影与西方文化批评流派》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，均为国内外最新的学术成果概述和评论。同时《英语电影与西方文化批评流派》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。
本书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语汇，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.Intemational 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
1.Genre and Methodology to Classify
2.Analysis Examples of Selected Main Genres
Chapter Six The Literary Movements and Impact to Films：From Classicism to Modernism
1.Romanticism Movement
2.Realism Movement
3.Modemism to Post-modernism
Chapter Seven Literary Critical Approaches to Film
1.Cultural Criticism （Cultural Studies）
2.Post-colonial Criticism
3.Structuralism 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.Deconstructionist Criticism （Poststructuralist， Post-moderrusm）
12.Biographical Criticism
13.Ecocriticism （Ecological Criticism）
Reference
Americans believe that they must be self-supported to own their freedom. Itis impossible to do what they want to do freely if they depend on parents，government or any organization excessively. American youths usually move out oftheir families when they are 18 years old or graduate from a university. PerhapsChinese people think the relationships between children and parents are apatheticin America. VirtuaUy the parents are willing to force their children out of familiesto make them self-supported. They don't need to live together with one or twogenerations to keep their emotions. The old are self-supported too. They preferliving without their children and won't accept others' help easily. In Americanfamilies， mothers seldom ask children not to do this or that. At most， motherswill tell children to go into their own rooms if children are too naughty. Therooms are theirs， and they can fix up the funuture and name their toys by themselves， and these are all in order to cultivate them to be self-supported.
Once a person becomes self-supported， he can just take the responsibility which he should. When several people go to have a mealin a restaurant， they will pay for their own part of the meal if nobody announces that he will pay for the meal beforehand. In those three American pictures， Forrest Gump and the other two persons all dare to take their own responsibility and pursue what they want to. They don't depend on others and can lead a wonderful life. Forrest had food opportunities to go to a university， join the army and develop his own career. He did not break lus promise and bought a shrimp boat to complete Bubble's dream. Sam wanted to be a father and was willing to take this heavy responsibility. Carol liked to learn some working skills and then entered a college. She actively put in a claim that she wanted to live alone when her mother did not think Carol could be independent without anybody's help. At last， Carol did it. Aments are not thesame as common people. They react and speak much slower than common people. All the aments are the same when they were bom to this world. But how could they be self-supported and take their own responsibility？-Because of American individualistic culture and cultural psychology. In the society filled with individualistic culture， children are educated to be self-supported and everybodyaround them does so. Therefore， American children are able to be self-supported， including aments.
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