COURSE IN SJMC
Film Appreciation in SJMC
The course focuses on helping the participants to appreciate cinema by understanding its distinct language, narrative complexity and the way films control and stimulate our thoughts and emotions. The course will explain features of cinema as an audio-visual medium, various associated art and cultural forms and technology used to construct a meaning.
Course Duration: 2 monthsIntended Audience: Any Interested Learners
Course Layout
WEEK 1
- Introduction
- Key concepts
- Film & Society
- Process of Filmmaking
- Film Theory
- Genre Theory
WEEK 2
- Traditions in World Cinema
- German Expressionism
- Italian New-Realism
- French New Wave
- Spanish Cinema
- British New Wave
- Chinese Cinema
- Indian Art Cinema
WEEK 3
- Action Cinema
- Aspects of Cinema: Melodrama
- Formalism in Cinema
- The Language of Cinema
- City Cinema
WEEK 4
- The Semiotics of Cinema
- Studio Cinema
- New Hollywood Cinema
- History of Hindi Cinema
WEEK 5
- Aspects of cinema:
- Ideology in Cinema
- Character in Cinema
- Researches in Cinema
WEEK 6
- Cinema in India (Bolywood & Regional)
- Mythological Cinema in India
- The Cinema of Satyajit Ray
- Hindi Film Music
WEEK 7
- WORLD CINEMA : Hollywood
- WORLD CINEMA : African cinema
- WORLD CINEMA : Iranian cinema
- WORLD CINEMA : Canadian Cinema
- WORLD CINEMA : European Cinema
- WORLD CINEMA : Asian Cinema
- Screening of latest films by the important film makers (3-4)
WEEK 8
- Postmodernism and cinema
- Small towns in cinema
- Film sequels, remakes and cult films
- Parallel Cinema from India
- Film Festivals (India & abroad)
- Dissertation on cinema
No of students to be admitted in one batch: 50
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