在百多年的电影发展史上，电影理论的建树可谓硕果累累，上承爱森斯坦、爱因汉姆，下逮米特里、麦茨，中经克拉考尔和巴赞，这些电影理论史上的经典作家和他们的代表作，曾经在世界电影的发展过程中发挥过各各不同的重要影响。本课程将遵循历史唯物主义的态度，在选（导）读的过程中尽可能地还原历史，对这些理论名著的产生、在当时及对后来创作的影响，以及对当代电影艺术发展的意义等作出充分的阐释和公正的评价。

In the development of the history of films for more than a hundred years, film theories are fruitful. The great works from Sergei M. Eisenstein to Andr Bazin have played an essential role in the different stages of the development of films. The course masterworks reading of film and TV theory will follow the original history of the works and give comparatively impartial criticism and fully concrete comments on creation and influence of the works at that time and in the later years.