March 20, British teacher Andrew Hillman gave a lecture with the theme Learning English Culture through Movies, in Room 360, Teaching Building 2. This lecture belongs to the Series of Engllish Lectures about Alien Culture.
At the end of the lecture, Andrew played one part of The Shawshank Redemption,there by showing the listeners how to learn more about English culture by watching movies.
The lecture has two parts:The first part is about different genres of film and the characteristics of them each. Andrew gave very detailed introduction of all types of films. For the purpose of helping students to understand, he gave an example to each flim genre. With his explaination, listeners knew more about some common genres of flim,like romance, horror,and got to learn some other types of flim,such as click flick,fantasy, teen movie, western, epic and so on. The second part is about how to improve English by watching movies.