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Film Appreciation
This course will enable the students to -
- Understand the art and language of Cinema.
- Understand the basics of various types of cinema.
- Understand the Auteur theory and critically analyze work of famous directors.
- Understand the development of Hindi Cinema into Bollywood.
Course Outcomes (COs):
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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
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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 |
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
1. Beginning Film Studies (2010). Andrew Dix.Viva Books, New Delhi.
2. How to Read a Film (2009). James Mopnaco. Oxford University Press. New York.
3. Brave New Bollywood: In Conversation with Contemporary Hindi Filmmakers (2015). Nirmal Kumar. SAGE. New Delhi.
4. Ideology of the Hindi Film: Historical Construction (1998).Madhava M Prasad.Oxford University Press. New York.
5. A Fly In The Curry: Independent Documentary Film In India (2016).K.P. Jayasankar .SAGE, New Delhi.
6. Cinema and Censorship-The Politics of Control in India (2009).Someshwar Bhowmik. Orient Black Swan Pvt. Ltd. Hyderabad.
7. The Essential Mystery-Major Filmmakers of Indian Art Cinema (2009). John W.Hood.Orient Black Swan Pvt. Ltd.. Hyderabad.
8. Bollywood Uncensored (2005). Derek Bose .Rupa Co. New Delhi.
9. Our Film, Their Films (1976). Satyajit Ray.Orient Longman, Hyderabad.
10. The Cinema of Bimal Roy- An Outsider Within (2017).Shoma A Chatterji. SAGE, New Delhi.
11. The Open Frame Reader – Unreeling the Documentary (2006). Rupa Co. New Delhi in association with Public Service Broadcasting Trust (India).
12. Behind the Scene – Contemporary Bollywood Directors and Their Cinema (2017).Edited by Aysha Iqbal VishswaMohan and Vimal Mohan John.SAGE, New Delhi.
