Film Appreciation

WEEK 1 :

• Introduction
• Key concepts-Part 1
• Key Concepts-Part 2
• Film Theory
• Genre Theory

WEEK 2 :

• Traditions in World Cinema-Lecture: German Expressionism
• Lecture: Italian New-Realism
• Lecture: French New Wave
• Lecture: Spanish Cinema
• Lecture: British New Wave
• Lecture: Chinese Cinema

WEEK 3 :

• Action Cinema
• Lecture: Deewar
• Aspects of Cinema: Melodrama
• Formalism in Cinema
• The Language of Cinema
• Devdas
• City Cinema

WEEK 4 :

• The Semiotics of Cinema
• Raging Bull
• Robert Bresson
• Studio Cinema: Part -1
• Studio Cinema: Part 2

WEEK 5 :

• New Hollywood Cinema: Part 1
• New Hollywood Cinema: Part 2
• History of Hindi Cinema Part 1
• History of Hindi Cinema Part 2
• History of Hindi Cinema: Part 3

WEEK 6 :

• Aspects of cinema:
• Ideology in Cinema
• Character in Cinema

Cinema in India :

• Mythological Cinema in India
• The Cinema of Satyajit Ray
• Hindi Film Music

WEEK 7 :

• WORLD CINEMA : The Hollywood musicals
• WORLD CINEMA : African cinema
• WORLD CINEMA : Iranian cinema
• WORLD CINEMA : Canadian Cinema
• WORLD CINEMA : Eastern European Cinema
• WORLD CINEMA : European Cinema Hungary, Sweden, Greece

WEEK 8 :

• Postmodernism and cinema
• Small towns in cinema
• Film sequels, remakes and cult films
• Parallel Cinema from India