Film Language

Paper Code: 
BMA 511
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
03
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

This course will enable students to understand and know the principles, forms and process of cinema as a discipline. To know the various theories of film studies and to relate various technologies and their development.

9.00
Unit I: 
Film Theories:

Amateur Cinema, Animation Cinema, Apparatus Theory, Art Films, Asian Epic Cinema, Auteur Theory, Avant-Garde, Bechdel Test, Black Cinema, British New Wave, Censorship, Cognitive Theory On Films, Cult Films, Feminist Film Theory, French New Wave, German Expressionism, Influence of German Expressionism around the world, Influence of New Wave Around The World.

9.00

Italian Neo-Realism, Marxist Theory on Films, Motion Picture: An Introduction, Post Colonial Theory, Post-Structuralism Theory on Films, Postmodernism in Films, Psychological Film Theory, Screen Theory, Soviet Montage Theory, Structuralist Film Theory, Semiotic Film Theory.

9.00
Unit III: 
Film Form:

 Narrative Cinema, Documentary Cinema, Experimental Cinema. Film Noir, Film styles.

 

9.00
Unit IV: 
Film Genre:

 Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Historical, Horror, Mystery, Paranoid, Philosophical, Political, Romance, Science fiction, Social, Thriller, Urban, Western, War, Animation.

9.00

Classical Hollywood cinema, The Multiplex Era, Globalization of the Indian film industry, Film adaptation, Film criticism. How the Camera "Speaks" the Language of Film, Mise-en-Scene.

 

   

ESSENTIAL READINGS: 
  1. Nicholas Proferes, “Film Directing Fundamentals”, Transferred to Taylor & Francis as of 2012 (Third Edition)
  2. Robert Edgar, John Marland, Steven Rawle, “The Language of Film”, Second Edition, Fairchild Books .
REFERENCES: 
  1. Steven Ascher , “The Filmmaker's Handbook Paperback”, Penguin USA; Fourth edition (27 November 2012).
  2. Steve Katz, “Film Directing Shot by Shot: Visualizing from Concept to Screen (Michael Wiese Productions) Paperback”,  Focal Press; 1 edition (31 July 1991).
Academic Year: