英语电影流派分类介绍

Film GenresWhat Kind of Movies Do You Like to Watch? Action? Romance? Comedy?

Comparison Movie VocabularyTalkies Regular Blockbuster Domestic films

Studio Films

Silent 3-D Flop Foreign-language films (sub-titled or dubbed) Independent (aka indie) usually low-budget films

'A' (or first-run) pictures vs 'B' pictures

Color vs Black and White

Live-action films vs Animated films

Original Mainstream (big budget films)

Sequels

Prequels

Remakes

USA Movie RatingsG / General Audiences. All Ages Admitted. PG / Parental Guidance Suggested. PG-13 / Parents Strongly Cautioned. R / Restricted. NC-17, X /No One 17 and Under Admitted. Unrated films

UK Movie Ratings‘Uc’ Category-suitable for pre-school children. ‘U’ Category-‘Universal’ 4 years and over. ‘PG’ Category-Parental Guidance '12A' AND '12' Category-12 years or over '15' Category-15 years or older ‘18’ Category- 15 years or older

TV RatingsAll ChildrenDirected to Older Children Parents Strongly Cautioned

Mature Audience Only

TV

TV Stations/Channels Cable TV Satellite TV Digital Video Recorder( DVR) TIVO (television recording device) Pay-per-view TV Shows/program TV Series Season Episode

Highest Grossing Films of All Time#1 Titanic #2 The Dark Knight #3 Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope #4 Shrek 2 #5 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

Weekend Top Box-office Hits1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

17 Again State of Play Hannah Montana The Movie Monsters vs. Aliens Fast & Furious Crank High Voltage Observe and Report Knowing I Love You, Man The Haunting in Connecticut

$23,722,310 $14,071,280 $56,874,039 $163,063,465 $136,205,795 $6,963,565 $18,812,239 $73,795,283 $64,614,979 $51,883,389

Adjusted for Ticket Price InflationGone with the Wind 2. Star Wars 3. The Sound of Music 4. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial 5. Ten Commandments 6. Titanic 7. Jaws 8. Doctor Zhivago 9. The Exorcist 10.Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs1.

$1,329,453,600 2. $1,172,026,900 3. $937,093,200 4. $933,401,500 5. $861,980,000 6. $844,515,900 7. $842,758,600 8. $816,811,300 9. $727,541,800 10. $717,220,0001.

What is a Genre?Categories of groups of films Recurring and similar patterns Similarities include: Content Themes Period-Settings Stock

and subject matter

characters (or characterizations)

Basic InfoMost movies can be put into one or more genre People often watch moves based on what kind of genre they like

Action

Fast paced entertainment

continuous high energy lots of physical stunts and activity extended chase scenes Races Rescues Battles martial arts destructive disasters (floods, explosions, natural disasters, fires, etc.) Fights Escapes

AdventureNew experiences or exotic locations The viewer lives vicariously through

Travels

Conquests Explorations Creation

of empires Struggles and situations