Film Appreciation (Theory)

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

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GJMC 301

Film Appreciation

CO74: Students should learn about the technicalities of cinema.

CO75:Students would learn about the differences between story, PSOt, 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: 
UNIT I
  • Language of Cinema I– 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: 
UNIT II
  • Language of Cinema 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: 
Unit III
  • Film Form and Style; German Expressionism and Film Noir. Italian Neorealism; French New-Wave; Genre and the development of Classical Hollywood Cinema;
  •  Watching relevant films.

 

 

 

20.00
Unit IV: 
UNIT IV
  • Alternative Visions; Third Cinema and Non Fiction Cinema. Introduction to Feminist Film Theory
  • Auteur- Film Authorship with a special focus on Satyajit Ray or Kurusawa; watching relevant films.

 

 

 

20.00
Unit V: 
UNIT V
  • Hindi Cinema- Studio System, 1950s ‐ Cinema and the Nation (Guru Dutt, Raj Kapoor, Mehboob); The Indian New-Wave;
  • Globalisation and Indian Cinema, The multiplex Era, Film Culture; Watching relevant films

 

References: 
  • 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).Someshwar Bhowmik.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.

 

Screening:

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

 

Academic Year: 
2020-2021
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