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