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模块4│ 专题预测 B．Gone With the Wind was the costliest and most popular film of Hollywood’s Golden Era. Producer David Selznick had promised that the film would be free of any anti-Negro ideas. Although it did not use white actors in blackface, like Birth of a Nation, its picture of enslaved African Americans as loyal but scatter-brained house ser-vants and clumsy field hands was what the white thought the black ought to be then. 模块4│ 专题预测 C．Glory offers a powerful retelling of the story of the first black regiment(团)during the American Civil War. Half the regiment’s men were killed or wounded in the war, but it dramatically demonstrated the courage of African American troops in the battle. However, the film failed to describe the larger historical context of the Civil War. 模块4│ 专题预测 D．Amistad is about a historical event. In 1839, a group of Africans were captured and shipped to the Spanish colony of Cuba. During trans-shipment to nearby sugar plantations, 53 slaves overpowered the crew. The captives then ordered the two men who had purchased them to navigate the ship towards Africa. At night, however, the men sailed the ship northward and westward. The case ultimately went to the Supreme Court. In 1841, the Court freed the captives. 模块4│ 专题预测 E．Beloved is based on Margaret Garners’ story of killing her own two-year-old daughter Mary. Margaret Garner said that she had intended to kill her other children rather than see them returned to slavery. She later explained that she wanted to “end their sufferings” rather than see them returned to bondage and “murdered by piecemeal”. No other work has so powerfully examined the interior life of a former slave. 模块4│ 专题预测 F．Schindler’s List concerns the lives of a thousand Jews during World War Ⅱ. The film shows, unforgettably, how one man does make a difference. Schindler proves that man’s morality and humanity are always alive. “Save one life, save the world entire.” The heavy tone and fearful atmosphere of the film are heightened by black-and-white cinematography. 模块4│ 专题预测 | 
