American Cinema (Кино и театры Америки)

Minicap Educational Establishment Secondary School N0 1 with Thorough Learning of Foreign Languages Central District, Chelyabinsk Report American Cinema Made by Bragina Kate Class 10-4 Foreign Language Department 2001-2002 The contents Introduction. 2 American Cinema 3 The earliest history of film. 4 The earliest movie theatres. 4 The growth of the film industry. 5 Popcorn 7 The Oscar. 7 Hollywood. 7 Beverly Hills. 9 The major film genres. 9 Film Companies 10 Film Directors and Producers 10 Films. 12 Actors and Actresses. 12 Marilyn Monroe. 16 Walt Disney 18 Titanic. 19 Literature. 20 Vocabularly. 21 Introduction. I m a cinema goer. And also I like watching films on TV or video.

But I think, that watching a good film is the best relaxation.

It is thought-provoking and entertaining. Now a growing number of people prefer watching films on TV to attending cinemas. There are wonderful comedies, love stories, science fiction, horror films, detective stories, and historical films on. There s a variety of films available today. It is difficult to live without cinema. One fact is clear for everyone cinema makes our life better. Cinema helps us to forget different problems. When people watch films, they have a rest. Some films take people into another world.

I think it is a pure world, where usual problems do not even exist. Cinema is a great power, it helps us to understand our complex well. Cinema can leave nobody indifferent. It is so powerful that it provokes complex feelings. We meet a lot of people. Everyone has his own opinion about something and like most of us I have my own opinion too, for example, about cinema. Cinema is a necessary and important part of my life. It is my essence, my mode of life and my happiness. Cinema helps me to cope with difficulties and with incorrigible problems.

So that s why I have chosen the topic Cinema. American Cinema The world of American cinema is so far-reaching a topic that it deserves, and often receives, volumes of its own. Hollywood in Los Angeles, California, of course, immediately comes to mind, as do the many great directors, actors and actresses it continues to attract and produce. But then, one also thinks of the many independent studios throughout the country, the educational and documentary series and films, the socially-relevant tradition in cinema, and the film departments of universities, such as the University of Southern California USC, the University of California at Los Angeles UCLA or New York University.

For over 50 years, American films have continued to grow in popularity throughout the world. Television has only increased this popularity. The great blockbusters of film entertainment that stretch from Gone with the Wind to Star Wars receive the most attention.

A look at the prizes awarded at the leading international film festivals will also demonstrate that as an art form, the American film continues to enjoy-considerable prestige. Even when the theme is serious or, as they say, meaningful, American films remain popular. In the past decade, films which treated the danger of nuclear power and weapons, alcoholism, divorce, inner-city blight, .the effects of slavery, the plight of Native Americans, poverty and immigration have all received awards and international recognition.

And, at the same time, they have done well at the box-office. Movies films, including those on video-cassettes, remain the most popular art form in the USA. A book with 20,000 readers is considered to be a best-seller. A hit play may be seen by a few thousand theatergoers. By contrast, about a billion movie tickets are sold at movie houses across the USA every year. There are three main varieties of movie theaters in the USA 1 the first-run movie houses, which show new films 2 art theaters, which specialize in showing foreign films and revivals 3 neighborhood theaters, which run films sometimes two at a time after the first-run houses.

New York is a movie theater capital of the country. Many of the citys famous large movie theaters, once giving Times Square so much of its glitter, have been torn down or converted in some cases into smaller theaters, and a new generation of modem theaters has appeared to the north and east of the area. Most of them offer continuous performances from around noon till midnight.

Less crowded and less expensive are the so-called neighborhood theaters, which show films several weeks or months after the first-run theaters. There are several theaters that specialize in revivals of famous old films and others that show only modernist, avant-garde films. Still others, especially those along 42nd Street, between the Avenue of Americas and Eighth Avenue, run movies about sex and violence.

Foreign films, especially those of British, French, Italian and Swedish origin, are often seen in New York, and several movie theaters specialize in the showing of foreign-language films for the various ethnic groups in the city.

The earliest history of film

A particular favorite was the zoetrope, slotted revolving drum through... The illusion of movement was first noted in the early 19th century. In 1824 the English physician Peter Mark Roget published an article th... In December 1895, The Lumiere brothers organized a program of short mo... Edison demonstrated a projecting kinetoscope.

The earliest movie theatres

Many projectors caused flickering on the screen, earning films the nic... When their commercial potential was realized they began to be screened... People would pay a nickel to see about an hour s worth of film, so the... They were shown in scientific laboratories and in the drawing rooms of... Within a few years fairground tents that slowed nothing but programs o...

The growth of the film industry

Before World War I American film industry had logged behind the film i... In 1918, she signed a contract for more than a million dollars. In succeeding years, many great films were made in Hollywood, beginnin... Stuart Blackton. By 1971, however, The Godfather showed how far the genre has evolved M...

Film Directors and Producers

He failed to make the transition to sound pictures. Russel, Ken 1926- ... It is especially known for a scene in which the character Mario Janet ... Nowadays she is sometimes mistaken for a saintly martyr, which she cer... In 1923 he left with his brother for Hollywood Walt Disney and Ub Iwer... Donald Duck was created in 1936.

Literature

Literature . 1. In The USA. Martha Bordman 2. Introducing The USA. Milode Broukol, Peter Murphy. 3. Children s Britannica. Volume 7. 4. Английский яык. Н.Г. Брюсов, Н. А. Лебедеваю 5. США и Американцы. Г. В. Нестерчук, В. М. Иванова. 6. Иностранные языки в школе 3. 7. Иностранные языки в школе 6. 8. Английский язык. Устные темы. А. С. Сушкевич, М. А. Маглыш.

Vocabularly

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