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(2016-17) Cinema Studies
This course will enable students to:
• understand and know the principles, forms and process of cinema as a discipline.
• know the various theories of cinema studies
• relate various technologies and their development.
Film History- Birth of Film, Silent Film, Hollywood, Neorealism and After, Third World Cinema, The Post Modern Era.
Film Theories- Apparatus Theory, Auteur Theory, Feminist Theory, Psychoanalytical Theory, Montage Theory and Mise-en-Scene..
Film Technology- Art and Technology, The lens and Camera, Film Stock, Sound Technology and Post production.
The Language of Film– Signs and Syntax, Images and Signs in Indian Cinema.
Great Indian Directors- Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, Bimal Roy, Guru Dutt and Raj Kapoor.
Adorno, Theodore. The Culture Industry. London and New York: Routledge, 1991.
• Appadurai, Arjun. Modernity at Large: The Cultural Dimension of Globalization. Minneapolis, London: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.
• Canclini, Nestor Garcia. Consumers: Globalization & Multicultural Conflict. Minneapolis & London: University of Minnesota Press, 2001.
• Chatterji, Partha. The Nation and its Fragments: Colonial and Post Colonial Histories. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.
• Foster, Hal. Ed. The Anti-Aesthetic. Seattle, Washington: Bay Press, 1983.
• Foucault, Michel. The Foucault Reader, ed. P Rabinow. Harmondsworth: 1984.
• Hebdige, Dick. Subculture: The Meaning of Style. London and New York: Methuen, 1979.
• Horkheimer, Max and Theodor W. Adorno. Dialectic of Enlightenment: Cultural Memory in the Present.. New York: Continuum, 1988.
• Huyssen, Andreas. After the Great Divide. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986.
• Jameson, Fredric. The Cultural Turn: Selected Writings on the Postmodern. 1983-1998. London & New York: Verso, 1998.
Monaco, James.How To Read A Film- Movies Media and Beyond.Oxford University Press: New York. 2009.
• Morley, David and Kuan-Hsing Chen. Eds. Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies. London & New York : Routledge, 1996.
• Nandy, Ashis. The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self Under Colonialism. Bombay, Calcutta, Madras: Oxford University Press,1983.
• Storey, John. Ed. What is Cultural Studies? A Reader. London, New York: Arnold, 1996.
• Bazin, Andre. What is Cinema? Vols 1 & 2. Berkeley & London : University of California Press, 1967, 1971.
• Bordwell, David and Kristin Thompson. Film Art: An Introduction, Fourth Edition. New York et al : McGraw Hill, Inc., 1993.
• Eric Barnow & S. Krishnaswamy. Indian Film. New York, Oxford, Delhi: Oxford University Press: 1980.
