高级英语-unit-3-Blackmail课件.ppt

单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,Blackmail,excerpted from,Hotel,Arthur Hailey,Advanced English Lesson Six,Preview Homework,Read the text:,to know the plot of the novel(structure),to pay attention to the portrayal of characters:,(1)How many characters are portrayed?,(2)the language used by different characters,(3)the action verbs used to describe different characters,to learn the words and expressions(Ex.,II,V,VI,VII,VIII,XI,XII,),Ask students to get information about the author Arthur Hailey from the internet or printed materials:,Nationality(birth place,home,etc.),Life(education,career,etc.),Writing Career(works,characteristics,subject matter,awards,etc.),Requirement(106),Learn the writing skill,portrayal of characters,:(1)vividly and carefully describing the,actions,(,effective use of,specific words,)of the characters (2)using the,languages,which suit the backgrounds of characters,To familiarize and appreciate,slangy and ungrammatical expressions,Requirement(104),successful,portrayal of characters,:(1)using,languages,(choice of words,sentence structure,grammar),which suit the background of characters(using many,elliptical and short,simple sentences,to achieve certain effects);(2)using,animal image,;(3)through,contrast,.,Arthur Hailey,Life in England(1920-1947),Life in Canada(1947-1965),Life in America(1965-1969),Life in Bahamas(1969-2004),Writing Career,Arthur Hailey,（阿瑟,黑利）,(April 5,1920 November 24,2004),Arthur Hailey is the author of a number of bestselling novels.,Life in England,Birth,:,Born in,Luton(,卢顿,),Bedfordshire(,贝德福德郡,),England,(,Map,),on,April 5,1920,Parents,:,Son of George Wellington Hailey(a factory shopkeeper),and Elsie Mary(Wright)Hailey,Early Life,:,He was,educated in English,schools until age,fourteen,(,1934,).,NEXT,BACK,Bedfordshire,Life in Canada,After the war in,1947,Hailey emigrated to,Canada,becoming a,Canadian citizen as well as British,;he also,lived briefly in the United States,.,In Canada he was successively a,real estate salesman,(,地产代理商,),business paper editor,(,商业报纸编辑,)and a,sales and advertising executive,(,销售及广告主管,).,assistant editor,1947-1949,and,editor,1949-1953,Bus and Truck Transport,Toronto,sales promotion manager,Trailmobile Canada,Toronto,1953-1956,After War,Life in Canada,Marriage,:,married,Joan Fishwick,1944,(divorced,1950,three sons,),married,Sheila Dunlop,(who wrote,I Married a Bestseller,in 1978),July 28,1951,(until his death,two daughters,one son,),NEXT,Grandchildren,BACK,discreet,审慎的,Children,Roger,John,Mark,(first marriage),Steven,Jane,Diane,(second marriage),Grandchildren,Paul,Emma,and,Charlotte,and,Brooke,who are students in Northern California,Ryan,a talented young bass(,低音乐器,)player and vocalist(,声乐家,)in a San Francisco band,Erogenous Jones,a trio(,三人组合,)known for writing witty,sardonic lyrics(,photo,),Chris,who is currently working towards an audio engineering(,声频工程,)degree in Seattle,Washington,Offspring,BACK,Erogenous Jones,From left to right:Ryan Hailey,Aaron Xavier,Craig Hordlow,BACK,First Novel,Arthur Haileys first novel,The Final Diagnosis,(,最后诊断,),was published in,1959,.,Second Novel&,Moving,Following the success of,Hotel,(,大饭店,)in,1965,he moved to,California,U.S.,First&Second Novels,Life in Canada,Writing Career,Life in Bahamas,Another Moving Home,In,1969,he moved to,the Bahamas,(,巴哈马群岛,)to avoid Canadian and U.S.,income taxes,which were claiming,90%,of his income.,For the,thirty-five years,Arthur Hailey and his second wife Sheila have made their home,at,Lyford Cay,(,莱佛德沙州,),an exclusive(,高级的,)residential resort on,New Providence Island,(,新,普罗维登斯岛,)in,the Bahamas,.(,Map,),NEXT,New Providence Island,the Bahamas,Lyford Cay,BACK,Lyford Cay,Runway Zero-Eight,(,零八跑道,)(1958)(,Flight into Danger,危险之旅,1956,)(,Zero Hour!,紧急关头,1957),The Final Diagnosis,(,最后诊断,)(1959),In High Places,(,身居要职,),(1962),Hotel,(,大饭店,),(1965),Airport,(,航空港,),(1968),Wheels,(,汽车城,),(1971),The Moneychangers,(,钱商,),(1975),Overload,(,超载,),(1979),Strong Medicine,(,烈药,),(1984),The Evening News,(,晚间新闻,),(1990),Detective,(,侦探,),(1997),The,ten,novels except the first are his sensational(,引起轰动的,),bestsellers,.,Writing Career,Eleven Novels,Other Writings,Plays(,剧本,),Screenplays(,电影剧本,),Televison Plays(,电视剧本,),Writing Career,NEXT,Plays,Flight into Danger,(televised 1956).Published in,Four Plays of Our Time,London,Macmillan,1960.,Close-up on Writing for Television.,New York,Doubleday,1960.,Writing Career,Screenplays,Zero Hour,with Hall Bartlett and John Champion,1958,The Moneychangers,1976,Wheels,1978,Writing Career,Television Plays,Flight into Danger,1956(USA),Time Lock,1962(UK),Course for Collision,1962(UK),plays,for Westinghouse Studio One,Playhouse 90,U.S.Steel Hour,Goodyear-Philco Playhouse,and Kraft Theatre,(USA),Writing Career,Spreading of Works,Some Figures-Popularity,Haileys novels have been published in,39,languages,;,an estimated,160 million,copies,are in print worldwide.,Most of his books have been made into,films or TV series,.,(,adaptation,),Writing Career,Characteristics,of Works,Scene&Focus,Effort for Researching,Purpose,Writing Career,Characteristics,of Works,Scene&Focus,Though a Canadian himself,he,set the,scene,of most of his works,in the,United States,.,Each of his novels has a different,industrial or commercial,setting,and includes,in addition to(1),dramatic human conflict,(2)carefully,researched information,about the way that particular,environments and systems,function,and(3)how these,affect,society and its inhabitants.,Writing Career,Characteristics,of Works,阿瑟,黑利的每一部作品都是以美国社会为,背景,，且都通过讲述发生在一个,行业,内部的故事，通过对某个行业进行比较细致、深入的描述，来展示当时美国,社会生活的某一个片断画面,。,最可贵的是，读完一篇小说，读者也会对这一行业有相应的了解。不少读者都认为，读阿瑟,黑利的书，会给人一种“工作着是美丽的”莫名冲动。,作品中的,场景,，大多,设置,为,一个相对固定而又开放的场所,，因而牵涉的,人物,可谓,来自五湖四海,。,危机小说，情节紧凑，高潮叠起,，书中故事一般都被设置在,一个比较短的时限内,，一开始就引入主要人物和场景，在交待人物和事件关系的同时，也点出了矛盾冲突。随后，人物与事件交相错杂而进，矛盾叠生，波澜起伏，直至故事的最高潮。,Writing Career,Characteristics,of Works,Effort for Researching(Some Figures),He would spend about,one year,researching a subject,followed by,six months,reviewing his notes and,finally,about,18 months,writing the book.,That,aggressive research,tracking rebel guerrillas in the Peruvian(,秘鲁的,)jungle at,age 67,for,The Evening News,(,晚间新闻,)(1990),or reading,27 books,on the hotel industry for,Hotel,gave his novels a,realism,that appealed to readers,even as some critics complained that he used it,to mask a lack of literary talent,.,Writing Career,Characteristics,of Works,Purpose,Each of his books deals with,one particular field of society,(,社会的某一领域,).This is made clear by the,titles,of his books.,It is this peculiarity of his that is valued to those who are eager to learn about,contemporary American society,(,当代美国社会,).,Writing Career,Criticism,Formulaic Style,Critics often dismissed(,不承认,)Haileys success as the result of a formulaic(,公式化的,)style in which he,centered a crisis on an ordinary character,then inflated(,使膨胀,使充气,)the,suspense,by hopping among,multiple related plotlines,(,情节主线,).,However,he was so popular with readers that his books were guaranteed to become bestsellers.,Writing Career,Awards,Nominated for Primetime Emmy(,黄金时段艾美奖提名,),Canadian Council of Authors and Artists award,1956 (,加拿大作家和艺术家委员会奖,),Best Canadian TV Playwright award,1957,1958 (,加拿大最佳电视剧编剧奖,),Doubleday Prize Novel award,1962 (,道布尔戴,奖小说,)(Frank Nelson Doubleday,美国出版家,创建了道布尔戴和麦克卢尔公司,),Writing Career,Life in Bahamas,Death,Hailey died of,stroke,in his sleep,at his home in the Bahamas,on,Nov.24,2004,.He was 84.,Detailed Description of Novels,Runway Zero-Eight,(,零八跑道,)(1958)(,Flight into Danger,危险之旅,1956,)(,Zero Hour!,紧急关头,1957),The Final Diagnosis,(,最后诊断,)(1959),In High Places,(,身居要职,),(1962),Hotel,(,大饭店,),(1965),Airport,(,航空港,),(1968),Wheels,(,汽车城,),(1971),The Moneychangers,(,钱商,),(1975),Overload,(,超载,),(1979),Strong Medicine,(,烈药,),(1984),The Evening News,(,晚间新闻,),(1990),Detective,(,侦探,),(1997),Detailed Description of Novels,Runway Zero-Eight,(,零八跑道,)(1958),-,Publishing process,（电视电影,电影,书）,This story started as the CBC(Canadian Broadcasting Corporation,加拿大广播公司,),TV movie,Flight into Danger,(,危险之旅,1956,with,John Castle,),then became the,1957 Paramount Pictures movie,Zero Hour,!(,紧急关头,),and was finally published as the novel,Runway Zero-Eight,(,零八跑道,)by John Castle and Arthur Hailey.,Detailed Description of Novels,Runway Zero-Eight,(,零八跑道,)(1958),-,Summary,in-flight,(,在飞行中的,),medical emergency,caused by,food poisoning,;spoofed(,讽刺,)in the movie,Airplane!,(,国际机场,),Runway Zero-Eight,is the story of,Maple Leaf Air Charter Flight 714,.Its a normal,everyday,routine flight,this time carrying a crowd of happy football fans-drinking,talking and placing extravagant(,过分的,)bets on the outcome of the next days game.Then suddenly as the airliner(,客机,)drones(,嗡嗡作声,)westward through the Canadian night,a fierce,unheralded(,无先兆的,),terror,strikes,and turns the peaceful,happy evening into a hideous nightmare.And on the ground hundred of miles away at Vancouver Airport,relatives,friends and lovers wait helplessly,silently and pray.,Detailed Description of Novels,The Final Diagnosis,(,最后诊断,)(1959),-,Summary,hospital politics,(,权术，派别之争,)as seen from the,pathology,(,病理学,)department,A story of the,life and death struggles in a large hospital,it focuses on,Joe Pearson,the chief,pathologist(,病理医师,),who must make the final diagnosis on every patient,and eventually on himself.,Detailed Description of Novels,In High Places,(,身居要职,)(1962),-,Summary,Cold War Era politics in North America,(,加拿大政府,),The novel plot revolves around the,Prime Minister of Canada,James McCullum Howden and essentially discusses in,detail the life at the top of the government,.,Public images,clash with,private lives,.,Ruthless(,残忍的,;,无情的,)ambition,collides with,forbidden desires,at the very summit of a powerful nations government.A,crisis,of,terrifying,proportions is set to explode between the superpowers.,Detailed Description of Novels,Airport,(,航空港,)(1968),-,Adaptation,(,国际机场,),In,1970,this book was adapted into a major motion picture starring Burt Lancaster,George Kennedy,Dean Martin and Van Heflin,among others.,It,became a blockbuster(,轰动,),movie,with stunning,visual effects,.The movie inspired a run of big,disaster movies,(,灾难电影,).,Detailed Description of Novels,Airport,(,航空港,)(1968),-,Summary,airport politics,机场,Airport,is about a large,metropolitan airport,and the,personalities of the people who use,rely and suffer from its operation,.,In a raging(,狂怒的,),blizzard,(,暴风雪,),a stricken,aeroplane,is struggling against all odds to reach its destination.For seven suspense-filled hours a blocked runway,a suicide,a mass demonstration,a stowaway(,偷渡者,),a pregnancy and a psychotic(,精神病患者,)with a home-made bomb,bring the plot to a shattering conclusion.,Detailed Description of Novels,Wheels,(,汽车城,)(1971),-,Adaptation,The novel was made into a,TV miniseries(,电视连续短剧,)in 1978,starring Rock Hudson and Lee Remick.,Detailed Description of Novels,Wheels,(,汽车城,)(1971),-,Summary,Wheels,is a novel concerning the,automobile industry,(,汽车制造业,)and the day-to-day(,日常的,)pressures involved in its operation.,The plotlines follow many of the topical issues of the day,including,race relations,corporate politics,and business ethics,.The auto company of the article is,a little-disguised Ford Motor Company,and some of the characters are recognizable to company insiders(,权威人士,).,In,Wheels,one of his greatest bestsellers,he exposes the supercharged(,超动力的,;,精力过人的,)world of the American,car industry,.From the grime(,尘垢,)and crime of a Detroit assembly line,through top-secret design studios to executive boardrooms(,董事会会议室,)and bedrooms,Arthur Hailey gives us the true heart of,motor metropolis,its men and women,their,lives,ambitions,treacheries(,背信弃义,),successes,disasters and loves,Detailed Description of Novels,Wheels,(,汽车城,)(1971),-,Characteristics,From,Airport,to,Hotel,and from,In High Places,to,The Final Diagnosis,Arthur Haileys incisive(,激烈的,),thrillers,(,惊险小说,),set at the heart of the great institutions of the modern world,are,unmatched,(,无可匹敌的,)for,authenticity,power and human drama,.,Detailed Description of Novels,The Moneychangers,(,钱商,)(1975),-,Adaptation,A,television miniseries,(,电视连续短剧,)bearing the same name and based on the novel was broadcast in,1976,.,-,Summary,The plot revolves around the,politics,inside the,crisis-torn,world of,a major US bank,.,金融界,Detailed Description of Novels,Overload,(,超载,)(1979),-,Summary,power crisis,in California,电力公司,Overload,concerns the,electricity production industry,in,California,and the activities of the employees and others involved with,Golden State Power and Light,a fictional California public service company.,The plots follow many of the issues of the day,including,race relations,corporate politics,business ethics,terrorism and journalism,.,Nim Goldman is vice president with GSP&L-the corporation feeding power,light and heat to the kilowatt hungry state of California.Hes got a big job and hes got all the women he can handle,but Nim knows the crunch(,危境,)is coming.Soon,very soon,power famine,(,严重的缺乏,)will strike the most advanced society the world has known.,Detailed Description of Novels,Strong Medicine,(,烈药,)(1984),-,Summary,pharmaceutical industry,制药业、药品推销员,Miracle drugs save lives and ease suffering,but for,profit-motivated,companies,the miracle is the money they generate at any cost.Billions of dollars in profits will make men and women do many things-,lie,cheat,even kill,.Now one beautiful,woman,will be caught in the cross fire(,两方或多方间的互相责难,)between,ethics and profits,.As Celia Jordans fast-track career sweeps her into the highest circles of an international drug company,she begins to discover,the sins and secrets hidden in the research lab and in the marketplace,.Now the companys powerful new drug promises a breakthrough in treating a deadly disease.But Celia Jordan knows it may deliver a nightmare.,Detailed Description of Novels,The Evening News,(,晚间新闻,)(1990),-,Summary,newscasters,新闻广播员、电视媒体,The Evening News,sweeps from the battle between,profit and ethics,in the boardrooms(,董事会议会,)and newsrooms(,编辑部,)of,New York,to the clash of,idealism and brutality,in the,jungles of South America,from an FBI investigation of a,tragic crime,to a,Florida-bound jet,carrying a most unusual human cargo.,When Crawford Sloanes wife,son and elderly father are,mysteriously kidnapped,his life turns upside down.As CBA-TVs most celebrated and popular,newscaster,he has become a,prime target for terrorists,.,While the TV network is held to ransom(,赎金,),Sloane decides to launch his own,rescue mission,and asks Harry Partridge,his colleague and competitor since the days they covered the war in Vietnam together,to head the operation.This is the most perilous(,危险的,)assignment either has ever undertaken,and in an uneasy partnership,it will require all their professional and emotional strength,for Jessica,Crawfords wife,is the only woman Harry has ever loved.,Detailed Description of Novels,Detective,(,侦探,)(1997),-,Adaption,The novel was adapted to a movie in 2005.,Detailed Description of Novels,De