Film Appreciation

Paper Code: 
GJMC 301
Credits: 
6
Contact Hours: 
90.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

This course will enable the students to -

  1. Understand the art and language of Cinema.
  2. Know the basics of various types of cinema.
  3. Understand the development of Hindi Cinema into Bollywood.

 

15.00
Unit I: 

Language of Cinema – Focus on Visual Language: Shot, Scene, Mis‐en‐scene, Deep Focus, Continuity Editing, Montage, Watching films and understanding the concepts practically

 

15.00
Unit II: 

Focus on Sound and Colour: Diegetic and Non-Diegetic Sound; Off Screen Sound; Sync Sound; Use of Colour as a Stylistic Element; Difference between Story, Plot, Screenplay, Watching  Relevant films

 

20.00
Unit III: 

Film Form and Style; Indian Cinema, Golden Era, Contemporary Cinema Last two Decades, Watching relevant films

 

20.00
Unit IV: 

Alternative Visions; Third Cinema and Non-Fiction Cinema. Introduction to Feminist Film Theory

Auteur- Film Authorship, Narrative building through Films

 

20.00
Unit V: 

Hindi Cinema- Studio System, 1950s ‐ Cinema and the Nation, The Indian New-Wave, Globalisation and Indian Cinema, The Multiplex Era, Film Culture

 

Essential Readings: 
  • Beginning Film Studies (2010). Andrew Dix.Viva Books, New Delhi.
  • How to Read a Film (2009). James Mopnaco. Oxford University Press. New York.
  • Brave New Bollywood: In Conversation with Contemporary Hindi Filmmakers (2015). Nirmal Kumar. SAGE. New Delhi.
  • Ideology of the Hindi Film: Historical Construction (1998).Madhava M Prasad.Oxford University Press. New York.
  • A Fly In The Curry: Independent Documentary Film In India (2016).K.P.Jayasankar.SAGE, New Delhi.
  • Cinema and Censorship-The Politics of Control in India (2009).SomeshwarBhowmik.Orient Black Swan Pvt. Ltd. Hyderabad.
  • The Essential Mystery-Major Filmmakers of Indian Art Cinema (2009). John W.Hood.Orient Black Swan Pvt. Ltd.. Hyderabad.
  • Bollywood Uncensored (2005). Derek Bose.Rupa Co. New Delhi.
  • Our Film, Their Films (1976). Satyajit Ray.Orient Longman, Hyderabad.
  • The Cinema of Bimal Roy- An Outsider Within (2017).Shoma A Chatterji. SAGE, New Delhi.
  • The Open Frame Reader – Unreeling the Documentary (2006). Rupa Co. New Delhi in association with Public Service Broadcasting Trust (India).
  • Behind the Scene – Contemporary Bollywood Directors and Their Cinema (2017).Edited by Aysha Iqbal VishswaMohan and Vimal Mohan John.SAGE, New Delhi.

 

References: 

Screening:

  • Rear Window by Alfred Hitchcock (Language of Cinema)
  • Battleship Potempkinby Sergei Eisenstein (Language of Cinema)
  • Man with a Movie Camera by DzigaVertov
  • Germany Year Zero directed by Roberto Rosselini (Italian Neo Realism)
  • Metropolis by Fritz Lang/Double Indemnity by Billy Wilder (German Expressionism and
  • Film Noir)
  • PatherPanchaliby Satyajit Ray
  • The hour of the Furnaces by Fernando Solanas
  • Nishant by ShyamBenegal/Aakrosh by GovindNihalani (Indian New wave)
  • Pyaasaby Guru Dutt

 

Academic Year: 
2022-2023
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