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图书名称：《英美经典 影视与文化教程》

【作　者】孙建光，王春梅著

【丛书名】大学英语后续拓展课程系列教材

【页 数】 178

【出版社】 南京：东南大学出版社 , 2018.08

【ISBN号】978-7-5641-7707-2

【价 格】39.00

【分 类】英语-阅读教学-高等学校-教材-影视艺术-鉴赏-世界

【参考文献】 孙建光，王春梅著. 英美经典 影视与文化教程. 南京：东南大学出版社, 2018.08.

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《英美经典 影视与文化教程》内容提要：

《英美经典影视与文化教程》以历史、信仰、名人、节日、教育、皇室、传奇及文学经典等为主线，选取r经典的电影，在介绍r这些影片的背景知识和故事情节的基础之上，通过设置的社会、历史、文化等板块帮助学习者在欣赏影片、提升语言能力的同时拓展知识面，培养思辨能力，树立?

《英美经典 影视与文化教程》内容试读

Unit One

History

Section ABraveheart

Section B

The Patriot

Section C

Pearl Harbor

Preface

We live in an age of information and mass media.Serving as a blessing,film isone of the greatest tools that we have at our disposal,which is an especially powerfulmedium in providing visual representations of abstract and distant historical concepts.

This unit highlights three historical concepts predominantly:Braveheart introducesus a heroic figure during the Wars of Scottish Independence between England and

Scotland in the 13th and 14th centuries:The Patriot focuses on the story happening onthe eve of American Independence War in the 1770s;as the movie name indicates,

Pearl Harbor is a film of epic and romance focusing on the attack on Pearl Harbor in

World War II.

Unit Goals

-To have a basic knowledge about British history;

-To have a deep understanding of the causes of the American War of Independence;

-To be able to appraise the historical impact of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

英美经典影视与文化教程

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Section A Braveheart

Every man dies.Not every man really lives

William Wallace

1.Warm-up Questions

1.How did England get its name?

2.When did the present United Kingdom come into being?

3.Do you know anything about William Wallace?

ll.Basics about the Movie

Genre:epic,history,war

G I B S O N

Director:Mel Gibson

Starring:Mel Gibson

Sophie Marceau

Patrick McGoohan

Release Year:1995

Running Time:178 minutes

Country:the United States

BRAVEHEAR

l.Synopsis

Mel Gibson's Braveheart is a full-throated,red-blooded battle epic about William

Wallace,the legendary Scottish warrior who led his nation into battle against the English inthe years around 1300s.

The movie begins from the year 1280 when the king of Britain,King Edward"Longshanks",invades and conquers Scotland following the death of Alexander Il of

Unit One History

Scotland,who leaves no heir to the throne.Young

William Wallace is a commoner and is taken abroadfor education after the death of his father and brother.

Years later,the England king grants his noblemenland and privileges in Scotland,which arouses the local

people's resistance,especially Prima Nocte.At the same time,the grown Wallace returnshome and falls in love with his childhood friend Murron and they marry secretly.Hisnewly-wedded wife is finally captured and publicly executed after her second attempt atdefying the King's order.The furious Wallace leads his clan to slaughter the Englishgarrison in his hometown.

Wallace rebels against England,and as his legend spreads,hundreds of Scots from thesurrounding clans join him.Longshanks sends his son Prince Edward to stop Wallace byany every possible means.Wallace has a great victory at the Battle of Stirling Bridge andthen destroys the city of York and kills the king's nephew.Robert the Bruce,the son ofnobleman Robert the Elder and a contender for the Scottish crown,offers a false coalitionwith Wallace and his intention is detected by Wallace.Longshanks sends his son's wife

Isabella of France on a negotiation mission and at the same time prepares for an abruptattack.

Isabella is entranced by Wallace and warns him of the incoming invasion.Wallaceappeals to the Scottish nobility to take up their arms and fight for their lost land.

Longshanks confronts Wallace in the battle and wins the upper hand due to the betrayal oftwo Scottish traitors.Robert the Bruce stops Wallace from pursuing Langshanks and bringshim to a safety place.Later,Wallace continues his guerrilla war against England for sevenyears,during which Wallace develops a romance with Isabella.

Wallace is set up and captured when he has ameeting with Robert.When Robert learns that hisfather,together with other nobles has handed over

Wallace to the English,he breaks with his father.

Isabella can also do nothing to save Wallace;however,she confides to the dying Longshanks that

she is pregnant with Wallace's child.

Wallace is tried in public in London.He refuses to submit to the King or beg formercy and is mercilessly beheaded.Later,Robert leads the army to continue their battleagainst England and they eventually win freedom for Scots.

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V.Culture Links

1.A Brief History of the United Kingdom

The earliest Britain inhabitants are said to be Mediterranean people who,during theprehistoric period,migrated through the English Channel and settled down.At about 2500BC,Beaker folk came and they left Britain a mysterious scenic spot-Stonehenge.

Subsequently,Britain was invaded by the Celts,the Romans,the Anglo-Saxons,the

Vikings and the Normans and later was transformed from an absolute monarchy to aconstitutional monarchy.

It is believed that between 1500 and 500 BC Celtic tribes migrated from Central Europeand France to Britain and settled down with the indigenous inhabitants.The Romans triedto invade Britain in 55 BC under Julius Caesar,but weren't successful until 43 AD,duringthe reign of Emperor Claudius I(克劳狄一世).The Roman rule of Britain ended in41O

AD.

After the Romans left,three Germanic tribes-the Anglos,the Saxons,and the Jutesruled Britain.They enslaved,killed or drove the Celts to the mountains.They established7 kingdoms,ruling over all England from about 500 to 850 AD,which were later known asthe Anglo-Saxon heptarchy().The country got its name England,"the land of the

Anglos”,

At the end of the 8th century,the seven kingdoms got united under Alfred the Great(阿尔弗雷德大帝)in resisting the attacks from the Vikings.Wars continued and powersshifted during the next 130 years.

The Normans conquered Britain in 1066 when Duke William of Normandy challengedthe successor of Edward the Confessor,Harold,and killed him at the battle of Hastings.

The Norman Conquest is the last invasion of Britain from the alien nations.

After the Normans,.Britain witnessed the rule of the House of Anjou(安茹王朝，1154-l485),also known as the House of Plantagenet(金雀花王朝，1154-l399),duringwhich period the Magna Carta(《大宪章》)was signed under the rule of King John in1215.The Magna Carta granted the townspeople freedom of trade and self-government andcompelled the king to rule by law.Therefore,it is regarded as the foundation of the Britishconstitutionalism.

The Hundred Years'War(1337-1453)between England and France and the Wars ofthe Roses(1455-1485)between two noble families broke out during the 14th century and

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thel5 th centuries.After the House of York(约克王朝)and the House of Lancaster(兰卡斯特王朝)，England began its rule of the Tudors(都铎王朝，l485一1603).

Britain began the Reformation during the reign of the second monarch of the House of

Tudor,Henry VI.He declared a break with the Roman Catholic Church and announcedhimself to be the Supreme Head of the Church of England (also called the Anglican Church).

The reign of the Stuarts(斯图亚特王朝，1603一1649，l660一1714)was interrupted asa result of the Civil Wars.Britain was a republic without a king or queen during theinterval and the monarchy was restored with the Glorious Revolution.In 1689,The Bill of

Rights(《权利法案》)was passed and the power of the monarch was limited.

Britain experienced the first Industrial Revolution from 1760 to 1840 during the Houseof Hanover(汉诺威王朝，17l4一l90l).As a result of it,Britain became the mostadvanced industrial country in the world.Under the reign of Queen Victoria,Britain'sprosperity reached its climax and its colonies were worldwide.

The Windsors(温莎王朝，I917一)①began to reign at the beginning of the20thcentury and witnessed the decline in influence after World War I and World War lI.Inthe 20th century,the United States took the place of the United Kingdom as the strongestand richest country in the world.2

2.England and Scotland

The full name of Britain is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,or the UK for short.England and Scotland are two components of the UK,and the other

two areWales and Northern Ireland,but in history Scotland was once an independent

country.

A tribe of the Celts called Scots came to the northern part of Britain and established acountry called Scotland.In 843 AD,the Kingdom of Scotland came into being and itremained an independent sovereign state for hundreds of years.Wars broke out frequentlybetween the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland in the 13th and 14thcenturies.During the Wars of Scottish Independence (1296-1328),William Wallaceemerged as the principal leader of the resistance to English rule and became a Scottish hero.

In 1603,the two countries shared the same ruler but still remained interdependent.It wasnot until 1707 that the Kingdom of Scotland agreed to enter into a political union with the

①温莎王朝前身为萨克森一科堡-哥达王朝，因“一战”而引起人们对德国的抵制，1917年改为现名。

2 All the dynasties and the monarchs in Britain since 1066 are listed in the end of the book.Please refer to Appendixfor further references

英美经典影视与文化教程

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Kingdom of England to create a new Kingdom of Great Britain.

On Sept.18,2014,the Scotland held anational referendum to decide whether to break the307-year union and go it alone as an independentnation or to stick with the United Kingdom.Thepoll revealed that 55%of Scottish people chose tostay with the UK;the referendum ended with

Scotland still being a member of the UK.

V.Exercises

Multiple Choices:Choose the best answer from the four choices given.

1.Braveheart is an epic war film directed and starred by a world-famous

Mel Gibson.

A.Briton

B.Scot

C.Australian

D.American

2.What is the direct reason for William Wallace's rebel against England?

A.The death of his father and brother.B.The education he received.

C.The cruelty of the English king.

D.The death of his wife.

3.Which of the following sentences is not taken from Braveheart?

A.Use your brain before the sword.

B.Fear can hold you prisoner;hope can set you free.

C.Every man dies.Not every man really lives.

D.Your heart is free.Have the courage to follow it.

4.Which of the following words cannot be used to describe Robert the Bruce?

A.Ambitious.

B.Treacherous.

C.Well-to-do.

D.Helpful.

5.Which of the following never invaded England?

A.The Vikings

B.The Germany.

C.The Romans.

D.The Anglo-Saxons.

6.Which of the following statements about Scotland is NOT true?

A.Of all the four districts in the UK,Scotland is the second largest in terms ofland,only second to England.

B.Scotland is famous for its kilts,bagpipes and brandy.

C.Scotland has been a sovereign country since 1714.

D.Scotland lost its chance of being an independent country in 2014 referendum.

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