FILM LANGUAGE

Paper Code: 
BMA 612
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

This course will enable the students to:

  1. Understand the principles, forms and process of cinema as a discipline.
  2. Know the various film theories and technologies and their development.

 

Course Outcomes (COs):

Course Outcomes (at course level)

 

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

 
 

The students will:

CO177.Correlate and link film theories.

CO178.Categories assess and correlate theories of French new wave, German expressionism, and influence of German expressionism around the world.

CO179.Determine and illustrate films according to traditional concepts.

CO180.Review and assess the multiplex era and globalization of the Indian film industry.

CO181.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

 

 

 

 

 

9.00

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

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.

 

 

9.00

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: 
  • Joseph Campbell, “The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work”, New World Library; 3rd ed. edition (11 March 2014)
  • Nicholas Proferes, “Film Directing Fundamentals”, Transferred to Taylor & Francis as of 2012 (Third Edition)
  • Robert Edgar, John Marl and,Steven Rawle, “The Language of Film”, Second Edition, Fairchild Books.

 

REFERENCES: 

SUGGESTED REFERENCE BOOKS:

  • Steven Ascher, “The Filmmaker's Handbook Paperback”, Penguin USA; Fourth, 2012.
  • Steve Katz, “Film Directing Shot by Shot: Visualizing from Concept to Screen (Michael Wiese Productions) Paperback”, Focal Press; 1 edition, 1991.

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Academic Year: 
2023-24
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