ABSTRACT
Advanced Modern Chinese: Learning through Contemporary Film aims to develop advanced-level Chinese students’ language skills through movies and broaden their knowledge about China, while also developing their appreciation of the artistic characteristics of film.
This textbook is based on the principles of content-based instruction and ACTFL Foreign Language Proficiency Guidelines for the "advanced" level. The authors carefully selected ten movies, of which eight were released after 2015, by filmmakers from mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and the United States. Rich themes are covered in this book and placed in ascending order from easy to difficult. The authors provide an informative movie critique in each lesson, followed by exercises on new words and grammar, pre-class preparation questions, in-depth classroom discussion points and after-class exercises on reading and writing. The authors also provide commentary on film cinematography covering topics such as film type, lens type, sound, editing and light in order to allow students to explore and analyze the artistic characteristics of film more systematically.
This textbook is specially designed for advanced-level Chinese students to learn Chinese through movies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 第一单元|42 pages
美国人镜头下的中国
chapter 第一课|20 pages
《别告诉她》:一个谎言背后的故事
chapter 第二课|20 pages
《花木兰》:勇敢做自己
part 第二单元|39 pages
爱的启示
chapter 第三课|17 pages
《滚蛋吧!肿瘤君》:与癌症斗争的一年
chapter 第四课|20 pages
《谁先爱上他的》:爱是毒药,还是解药?
part 第三单元|43 pages
校园与社会
chapter 第五课|19 pages
《归途列车》:不归之途
chapter 第六课|22 pages
《少年的你》: 愿你被世界温柔相待
part 第四单元|40 pages
道德与法律
chapter 第七课|19 pages
《亲爱的》: 寻子路上的爱与恨
chapter 第八课|19 pages
《我不是药神》: 小人物的救赎
part 第五单元|42 pages
动画与科幻