理解电影叙事

课程是由四位中青年电影学学者组成的教学团队讲授的全英文慕课，课程专注讲授中西方文化中的电影叙事原型，围绕电影作为语言和作为媒体的属性，从符号学、意识形态理论、类型理论、精神分析理论、影游融合等角度带领学习者理解电影叙事的机制和原理。

The course "Understanding Film Narrative" is composed of four young and middle-aged film scholars as lectures. It foucses on teaching the archetypes of film narrative in Chinese and Western culture. Centering on the charatveristics of film as language and medium, it leads learners to understand the mechanism and principle of film narrative from the persectives of semiotics, ideological theory, genre film theory and psychoanalysis.

Syllabus

Chapter 1 Semiotics, Film language

1.1. Film language: An introduction of Semiotics
1.2. Characteristics of film language (1)
1.3. Characteristics of film language (2)
1.4. Characteristics of film language (3)
1.5. Signifier-Signified
1.6. Roland Bathe’s five codes

Chapter 2 Ideology of Film Narrative

2.1 Defining Ideology
2.2 Persuasiveness: How film narrative can produce ideology? (1)
2.3 Persuasiveness: How film narrative can produce ideology? (2)
2.4 Film form and ideology
2.5 Ethical narrative: Replacement of ideological narrative
2.6 The reflection of ideological narrative of film: discussion of Barbie, 2023

Chapter 3

3.1Let’s talk about Film Genre
3.2 Using dualistic structure to interpret themes and values.
3.3 Mix of film genres & Shared Plot Structure

Chapter 4

4.1 Film narrative and Psychoanalysis theory（1）: Sigmund Freud's Psychoanalysis
4.2 Film narrative and Psychoanalysis theory (2): Sigmund Freud's Psychoanalysis
4.3 Film narrative and Psychoanalysis theory（3): Sigmund Freud's Psychoanalysis