(2018-19) Cinema Studies

Paper Code: 
JMC-144 C
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00

Film History- Birth of Film, Silent Film,  Studio System, Decline of Studio system in India The Star System, The Rise of the American Film Industry – Silent Cinema & Technical Thrills and its Early Form: Cinema of Attractions – Emergence of Censorship

 

 

 

Analyzing the Moving Image: Technical Elements, Symbolic Elements - Examining Narratives: Syntagmatic versus Paradigmatic Approach – Genre Analysis: Areas of Possible Genre Research – Researching Principal Elements: Essential Approach, Categorization Approach, and Iconography – Genre Development: Experimental, Classical, Parody and Deconstruction – Approaching Genre through Aesthetics and Exchange - Reading Narratives as ‘text’

 

 

Silent Film Theory - Soviet Montage Theorists – Russian Formalism & Bakhtian School – Frankfurt School – Cult of the Auteur – Americanization of the Auteur Theory – The Advent of Structuralism – Interrogating Authorship & Genre – From Linguistics to Psychoanalysis – Feminist Interventions in Film Studies – Birth of the Spectator and Semiotics - Queer Theory – Louis Althusser and Ideology – Michel Foucault : Discourse Power and Knowledge

 

 

Mainstream Film Making versus Film Movements: Eisenstein and Socialist Cinema – German Expressionism – The Devastation of War and Italian Neorealism –The Coming of Modernism : The New Wave Cinemas – French New Wave: German New Wave : Japanese New Wave: British New Wave.

 

 

Early Pioneers of the Indian Cinema - The Golden Age of Indian Cinema –Indian Art Cinema and the Parallel Cinema Movement – The Nation and its Fragment: The Idealized Woman - Narrating the Nation Through Heroes and Villains – Heroines : From Romance to Sexed Up Bodies – Major Hindi Film Genres and Forms - Song and Spectacle – Issues of Censorship – The Nation in Transition: The Problematic Decade of the 70s and the 80s -Contemporary Indian Cinema: Trends and Transformation - NRI cinema and the Multiplex. 12

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Academic Year: 
2019-2020
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