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Film Appreciation
Coordinators: Dr. Shilpa Mehta

This course will be a study of Cinema both as a social institution and as a popular art form. It will offer a historical overview of national and international film movements enabling the students to study film from the perspective of the great masters of Cinema.

What is Cinema? How is it different from the other arts? Is it illusive or real? What is the relationship between sounds, images and words? How does Cinema play around space and time? These are some of the many questions that will be addressed during the course, initiating students into a broad range of debates intrinsic to film theory concerning aesthetics, genre, realism and spectatorship. The course will also introduce the students to film language; its stylistics and methodologies; its narrative patterns and textures to enable a finer understanding of cinematic image.

Students will have a chance to interact with editors, scriptwriters, researchers, filmmakers and film theorists. A visit to a film studio will be arranged. Classes will combine lectures with screening of film clips. In addition, screenings of full-length films and documentaries will also be held.

Broadly the course will incorporate the following topics:

• Language of Cinema and Film theory
• Early Russian Cinema and montage
• Classical Hollywood cinema
• Italian Neo-Realism
• The French New Wave Cinema
• Indian Cinema
• Asian Cinema
• Documentary
• Film Genre
• Popular Melodrama
• The Star System
• Digital Cinema