FILM LANGUAGE (THEORY)

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

Course Objectives:

This course will enable the students to

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

 

Course Outcomes (COs):

Course 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

 

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.

 

 

9.00

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 READINGS:

  • 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).

JOURNALS:

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Academic Year: 
2022-23
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