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Film Appreciation

Prof. Aysha Viswamohan · IIT Madras

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About

The course focuses on helping the participants to appreciate cinema by understanding its distinct language, its narrative complexity and the way films control and stimulate our thoughts and feelings. Through various examples from Indian and international cinema, the course will explain how cinema as a visual medium, engages with us in constructing meaning.

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Lectures

Week 1

  1. Lecture 1: Introduction YouTube
  2. Key Concepts: Part 1 YouTube
  3. Key Concepts: Part 2 YouTube
  4. Lecture: Film Theory YouTube
  5. Lecture: Genre Theory YouTube

Week 2

  1. Traditions in World Cinema : Lecture: German Expressionism YouTube
  2. Lecture: Italian New-Realism YouTube
  3. Lecture: French New Wave YouTube
  4. Lecture: Spanish Cinema YouTube
  5. Lecture: British New Wave YouTube
  6. Lecture: Chinese Cinema YouTube

Week 3

  1. Action Cinema YouTube
  2. Lecture: Deewar YouTube
  3. Aspects of Cinema: Melodrama YouTube
  4. Formalism in Cinema YouTube
  5. The Language of Cinema YouTube
  6. Devdas YouTube
  7. City Cinema YouTube

Week 4

  1. The Semiotics of Cinema YouTube
  2. Raging Bull YouTube
  3. Robert Bresson YouTube
  4. Studio Cinema: Part -1 YouTube
  5. Studio Cinema: Part 2 YouTube

Week 5

  1. New Hollywood Cinema: Part 1 YouTube
  2. New Hollywood Cinema: Part 2 YouTube
  3. History of Hindi Cinema: Part 1 YouTube
  4. History of Hindi Cinema: Part 2 YouTube
  5. History of Hindi Cinema: Part 3 YouTube

Week 6 : Aspects of cinema

  1. Ideology in Cinema YouTube
  2. Character in Cinema YouTube

Cinema in India

  1. Mythological Cinema in India YouTube
  2. The Cinema of Satyajit Ray YouTube
  3. Hindi Film Music YouTube

Week 7

  1. WORLD CINEMA : The Hollywood musicals YouTube
  2. WORLD CINEMA : African cinema YouTube
  3. WORLD CINEMA : Iranian cinema YouTube
  4. WORLD CINEMA : Canadian Cinema YouTube
  5. WORLD CINEMA : Eastern European Cinema YouTube
  6. WORLD CINEMA : European Cinema Hungary, Sweden, Greece YouTube

Week 8

  1. Postmodernism and cinema YouTube
  2. Small towns in cinema YouTube
  3. Film sequels, remakes and cult films YouTube
  4. Parallel Cinema From India YouTube

Syllabus and materials

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Credits and licence

Institution
IIT Madras
Department
Humanities and Social Sciences
Teacher
Prof. Aysha Viswamohan
Level
Undergraduate
Language
English
Subjects
Society and politics
Source
NPTEL
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA, as NPTEL states it. Non-commercial use only. NPTEL's terms
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