Film Appreciation

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

Course Objectives:

This course will enable the students to understand the art, language, theories and various types of Cinema. It will also acquaint the students with the development of Hindi Cinema into Bollywood.

 

20.00
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.

20.00
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.

 

15.00
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.

 

15.00
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.

10.00
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

Essential Readings: 
  1. Andre Bazin, “The Ontology of the Photographic Image” from his book What is Cinema Vol.I
  2. Berekeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press: 1967, 9-16
  3. Sergei Eisenstein, “A Dialectic Approach to Film Form” from his book Film Form: Essays inFilm
  4. Theory (Edited and Translated by Jay Leyda) San Diego, New York, London: A Harvest/Harcourt
  5. Brace Jovanovich, Publishers: 1977, 45-63
  6. Tom Gunning, "Non-continuity, Continuity, Discontinuity: A theory of Genres in EarlyFilms,"

 

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. Pyaasa by Guru Dutt

 

Academic Year: 
2018-2019
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