Cinema Studies

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

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.

 

 

Unit I: 
UNIT I

Film Theories- Apparatus Theory, Auteur Theory, Feminist Theory, Psychoanalytical Theory and Study of Film Genre.

 

Unit II: 
UNIT II

Evolution of Cinema as a Language-  History, Technique, Vertigo effect and Hitchcock’s work.

 

Unit III: 
Unit III

Sequence and Script Analysis, Cinematography and Editing Analysis and Realism in Cinema.

 

Unit IV: 
UNIT IV

Images and Signs in Indian Cinema, Popular Cinema in India.

 

Unit V: 
UNIT V

Great Indian Directors- Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, Mrinal Sen, Guru Dutt and Raj Kapoor.

 

References: 

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.

 

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  2. Foster, Hal. Ed. The Anti-Aesthetic. Seattle, Washington: Bay Press, 1983.
  3. Foucault, Michel. The Foucault Reader, ed. P Rabinow. Harmondsworth: 1984.
  4. Hebdige, Dick. Subculture: The Meaning of Style. London and New York: Methuen, 1979.
  5. Horkheimer, Max and Theodor W. Adorno. Dialectic of Enlightenment: Cultural Memory in the Present.. New York: Continuum, 1988.
  6. Huyssen, Andreas. After the Great Divide. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986.
  7. Jameson, Fredric. The Cultural Turn: Selected Writings on the Postmodern. 1983-1998. London & New York: Verso, 1998.
  8. Morley, David and Kuan-Hsing Chen. Eds. Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies. London & New York : Routledge, 1996.
  9. Nandy, Ashis. The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self Under Colonialism. Bombay, Calcutta, Madras: Oxford University Press,1983.
  10. Storey, John. Ed. What is Cultural Studies? A Reader. London, New York: Arnold, 1996.
  11. Bazin, Andre. What is Cinema? Vols 1 & 2. Berkeley & London : University of California Press, 1967, 1971.
  12. Bordwell, David and Kristin Thompson. Film Art: An Introduction, Fourth Edition. New York et al : McGraw Hill, Inc., 1993.
  13. Eric Barnow & S. Krishnaswamy. Indian Film. New York, Oxford, Delhi: Oxford University Press: 1980.
     
Academic Year: 
2015-2016
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