Welcome back to school!

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Welcome back to school!
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About the Course

• What are you required to do?
• Before class
• In class --- movie appreciation participation
• After class

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About the Course

• Scoring
• Homework 10
• Class participation 40
• Attendance 10
• Final Exam 20
• Short play 20
• Script 10
• Acting 10

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Homework
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What is culture?
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• Culture is the water a fish swims in.
• Culture is the grammar of our behavior.
• Culture is peoples customs, behavior.

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politics
history
language
Value
Culture
customs
Beliefs
behavior
politics
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Time for Discussion!
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Savoring Culture through Movies
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How to learn culture from movies?
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• Where are the people?
• Who are they?
• What are they doing?
• Why do the man in green wave to the people at the
  gate?

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• what are on the table?
• What is the relationship between the man and the
  woman?
• What does the man ask the woman to do?

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• What might be the relationship between the woman
  and the children?
• Where are they?
• What d

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All About Movies

• Movie vocabulary
• Movie Studios
• Movie Awards

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Movie Vocabulary

• crime film
• ethical
• romance/ love film
• western
• science fiction
• horror film
• disaster film

• musical
• documentary
• literary
• newsreel
• swordsmen film
• detective film
• gangster film

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Awards

• Oscar Prize
• Academy Awards
• Nominations
• Golden Horse Prize
• Blue Ribbon

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Actors and Actress

• Cast
• All star cast
• Principal
• Co-star
• Leading actor/ male lead
• Second lead
• Supporting actor
• Semi-star

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Movie Studios
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20th Century Fox Studio
Warner Bros
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Paramount Studio
New line
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MGM(Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
Columbia Pictures Corp
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Assignment

• Gather information about the following topics
• Wedding
• Womans role
• Easter
• Think about the following questions
• If youre going to marry a foreigner, what might
  be the problems that youll face?

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Assignment

• Form groups of four.
• Choose a topic.
• Write a short play (for fifteen minutes) with
  your partners to show one aspect of American
  culture.
• topics the 3,4th week
• First draft the 7,8th week
• Acting April 30th