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FILM LANGUAGE
This course will enable the students to
- Understand the principles, forms and process of cinema as a discipline.
- Know the various theories of film studies and to relate various technologies and their development.
Course Outcomes (COs):
Learning Outcomes (at course level)
| Learning and teaching strategies | Assessment Strategies |
Students will : CO172. Correlate and link film theories.
CO173. Categories, assess and correlate theories of French new wave, German expressionism, and influence of German expressionism around the world.
CO174. Determine and illustrate films according to traditional concepts.
CO175. Review and assess the multiplex era and globalization of the Indian film industry.
CO176. Design and create presentations on film genres study and their effects on mass audience. | Approach in teaching: Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Reading assignments, Demonstration, discussion, presentation
Learning activities for the students: Effective questions, Seminar presentation, Quizzes, Group Discussions
| Assessment Strategies Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects |
CONTENTS
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
Nicholas Proferes, “Film Directing Fundamentals”, Transferred to Taylor & Francis as of 2012 (Third Edition)
Robert Edgar,JohnMarland,StevenRawle, “The Language of Film”, Second Edition, Fairchild Books.
Steven Ascher , “The Filmmaker's Handbook Paperback”, Penguin USA; Fourth edition (27 November 2012).
Steve Katz, “Film Directing Shot by Shot: Visualizing from Concept to Screen (Michael Wiese Productions) Paperback”, Focal Press; 1 edition (31 July 1991).
