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.

 

 

9.00
Unit II: 

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.

9.00
Unit III: 

Psychological Film Theory, Screen Theory, Soviet Montage Theory, Structuralist Film Theory, Semiotic Film Theory, Film Form: Narrative Cinema, Documentary Cinema, Experimental Cinema. Film Noir.

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
Unit V: 

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, JohnMarland, StevenRawle, “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: