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. Understand the basics of various types of cinema.
  3. Understand the Auteur theory and critically analyze work of famous directors.
  4. Understand the development of Hindi Cinema into Bollywood.

                                

Course Outcomes (COs):

Course

Learning outcomes

(at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment

Strategies

Paper Code

Paper Title

GJMC 301

Film Appreciation

CO74: Students should learn about the technicalities of cinema.

CO75:Students would learn about the differences between story, Plot, screenplay etc.

CO76: Students would gain knowledge about the Hollywood cinema including French, Italian.

CO77: Students would learn the theories behind the cinema and they will study about Satyajit Ray and his films.

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Demonstration

 

Learning activities for the students:

Self learning assignments, Effective questions, Simulation, Seminar presentation, Giving tasks, Field practical

 

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects, software learning, working on professional cameras still and video both, film reviewing

 

15.00
Unit I: 
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: 
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: 
III
  • Film Form and Style; Indian Cinema, Golden Era
  • Contemporary Cinema Last two Decades
  • Watching relevant films

 

20.00
Unit IV: 
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: 
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: 

Suggested Text Books:

  • 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.

Suggested Reference Books:

  • 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 Vishswa Mohan and Vimal Mohan John. SAGE, New Delhi.

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)
  • Pather Panchali by Satyajit Ray
  • The hour of the Furnaces by Fernando Solanas
  • Nishant by ShyamBenegal/Aakrosh by GovindNihalani (Indian New wave)
  • Pyaasaby Guru Dutt

 

 

References: 

E-Resources:

 

Reference Journals:

  • Media Watch
  • The Indian Journal of Mass Communication and Journalism
  • Journal of Media and Communication
  • Amity Journal of Media and Communication Studies
  • International Journal of Communication
  • Critical Studies in Media Communication
Academic Year: 
2023-2024
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