在托福听力考试中，除了需要有扎实的听力基础外，对各种材料的背景也需要去了解。虽然考试并不考察考生对背景知识的了解程度，但有这方面的基础必定能帮助理解文章，进而解题。因为托福听力范围十分广，所以我们除了要在平时多整理托福听力背景知识外，还需要掌握一定的专业知识，比如绘画、音乐、文学、摄影、舞蹈等方面。
To get us started this semester I am going to spend the first two classes giving you background lectures about some basic cinematic concepts. Once you are a little more familiar with basic film terminology, we will be ready to look at the history of movies in the United States. You’ll be expected to attend showing of films on Tuesday evenings at 7 o’clock in Jennings Auditorium. That’s our lab. Then during our Wednesday seminar, we’ll discuss in depth the movie we saw the night before. We are not covering silent films in this course. We will begin with the first talking motion picture, The Jazz Singer, released in 1927. The next week, we’ll be looking at The Gold Diggers of 1933, a piece that is very representative of the escapist trend in films released during the depression. Some of the films we will be watching will probably be new to you, like Frank Capra’s Why We Fight. Others you might have already seen on TV like Rebel without A Cause starring James Deane, or Stanley Cooper’s Doctor’s Strange Love. However, I hope you see even familiar film with new eye. In the last three weeks of the course, we will be watching films from the 1980s and you’ll choose one of them as a subject for an extensive written critique. We’ll talk more about the requirements of the critique later in this semester
以上是关于电影艺术的托福听力材料，希望大家在听到此类的听力材料时能够做到心中有数。相信大家一定有所收获，希望能在备考的路上助大家一臂之力。最后，小编祝大家在托福考试中取得好成绩!
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