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.
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,Italian Neo-Realism, Marxist Theory on Films, 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, Film Form: Narrative Cinema, Documentary Cinema, Experimental Cinema. Film Noir.
Film Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Historical, Horror, Mystery, Paranoid, Philosophical, Political, Romance, Science fiction, Social, Thriller, Urban, Western, War, Animation.
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.