Course10910617083 lectures
Introduction to Film studies
Prof. Aysha Iqbal · IIT Madras
Lectures
Week 1
- Course Overview - Part 1
- Course Overview - Part 2
- Cinema and Semiotics - Part 1
- Cinema and Semiotics - Part 2
- Cinema and Semiotics - Seven (1995) - Part 1
- Cinema and Semotics - Seven (1995) - Part 2
Week 2
- Plot in Cinema - Part 1
- Plot in Cinema - Part 2
- Plot in CInema - 7 primary types of plot
- Plot in Cinema - Conflict as a Plot Element
- Character as a Plot Element - Part 1
- Character as a Plot Element - Part 2
Week 3
- Editing in Cinema - (Montage, Jumpcut) - Part 1
- Editing in Cinema - (Montage, Jumpcut) - Part 2
- Realism in Cinema - Part 1
- Realism in Cinema - Part 2
- Colour: Theory and Practice - Part 1
- Colour: Theory and Practice - Part 2
Week 4
- Intertextuality - Casablanca (1942) - Part 1
- Intertextuality - Casablanca (1942) - Part 2
- Intertextuality - Blade Runner (1982) - Part 1
- Intertextuality - Blade Runner (1982) - Part 2
- Intertextuality - The Matrix (1999) - Part 1
- Intertextuality - The Matrix (1999) - Part 2
Week 5
- Cinema and Modernism - Part 1
- Cinema and Modernism - Part 2
- Cinema and Modernism - Part 3
- Guest Lecture by Sudhish Kamath (Film Critic and Film Maker)
- The French Masters - Jean Renoir - Part 1
- The French Masters - Jean Renoir - Part 2
- The French Masters - Robert Bresson - Part 1
- The French Masters - Robert Bresson - Part 2
- The French Masters - Robert Bresson - Part 3
Week 6
- What is a Canon?
- Canonical Text - Citizen Kane (1941) - Part 1
- Canonical Text - Citizen Kane (1941) - Part 2
- Canonical Text - The Godfather (1972/1974) Part 1
- Canonical Text - The Godfather (1972/1974) Part 2
- Canonical Text - The Godfather (1972/1974) Part 3
- Canonical Text - The Godfather (1972/1974) Part 4
Week 7
- The Academy Awards Case Study - My Left Foot (1989) and Daniel Day-Lewis Method Acting - Part 1
- The Academy Awards Case Study - My Left Foot (1989) and Daniel Day-Lewis Method Acting - Part 2
- Classic Hollywood - Hay's Code, Studio Years, Major Filmmakers - Part 1
- Classic Hollywood - Hay's Code, Studio Years, Major Filmmakers - Part 2
- Classic Hollywood - Major Filmmakers, Melodrama - Part 1
- Classic Hollywood - Major Filmmakers, Melodrama - Part 2
- Classic Hollywood - Major Filmmakers, Melodrama - Part 3
- Classic Hollywood - Major Filmmakers, Melodrama - Part 4
Week 8
- German Expressionism, Film Noir Case Study: Laura (1944) and Neo Noir Case Study: Taxi Driver (1976) - Part 1
- German Expressionism, Film Noir Case Study: Laura (1944) and Neo Noir Case Study: Taxi Driver (1976) - Part 2
- Stars as Icons, Case Study of the Stardom of James Dean and Fandoms - Part 1
- Stars as Icons, Case Study of the Stardom of James Dean and Fandoms - Part 2
- Cinema and the Counterculture Movement - Beat Generation, Woodstock Nation, Easy Rider (1968) - Part 1
- Cinema and the Counterculture Movement - Beat Generation, Woodstock Nation, Easy Rider (1968) - Part 2
Week 9
- Italian Cinema - Part 1
- Italian Cinema - Part 2
- Japanese Cinema - Part 1
- Japanese Cinema - Part 2
- Auteur Theory in the USA - Part 1
- Auteur Theory in the USA - Part 2
- Auteur Theory in the USA - Part 3
- Auteur Theory in the USA - Part 4
Week 10
- New Hollywood - Part 1
- New Hollywood - Part 2
- New Hollywood - Part 3
- New Hollywood - Part 4
- New Hollywood - Part 5
- New Hollywood - Part 6
Week 11
- New Hollywood - Part 7
- New Hollywood - Part 8
- Cinema and Genres - Part 1
- Cinema and Genres - Part 2
- Cinema and Genres - Part 3
- Cinema and Genres - Part 4
Week 12
- Postmodernism and Cinema - Part 1
- Postmodernism and Cinema - Part 2
- Postmodernism and Cinema - Part 3
- Postmodernism and Cinema - Part 4
- The Western - Part 1
- The Western - Part 2
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- Institution
- IIT Madras
- Department
- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Teacher
- Prof. Aysha Iqbal
- Level
- Undergraduate
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Society and politics
- Source
- NPTEL
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