[Reader-list] [Announcements] Film Appreciation Workshop in Mumbai

[Comet Media Foundation]

  Understanding Worlds of Cinemas

This workshop will consist of 24 sessions, (6:30 to 8:30 pm) three days 
a week (Mon-Wed-Fri), spread over eight weeks (two months) 17^th April 
to 9^th June 2006, at Comet Media Foundation, Topiwala Lane School, 
Lamington Road, Mumbai 400 007. These sessions will be conducted by 
filmmaker Chandita Mukherjee with other resource persons coming in for 
specific topics. There will be screenings of selected films from each 
period and genre being explored.

*Session no*

	

*Subject and description*

	

*Dates*

	

*No of units*

1

	

An introduction to the course with a focus on the origins of cinema: its 
pre-history in the impulse to art and technological history

	

17^th April

	

1

2

	

The advent of cinema: the making of a language of film 1913–1919 till 
the coming of the talkies, 1929

	

19^th April

	

1

3 & 4

	

Developments in the Soviet Union: Eisenstein and his contemporaries, 
experimentation with form, concepts of montage, mise-en-scene etc.

	

21^st & 24^th April

	

2

5

	

Understanding the development of a popular ‘Indian’ film language 
starting with Phalke, through the decades till the present.

	

26^th April

	

1

6

	

The evolution and rise of the studio system in Hollywood

	

28^th April

	

1

7 & 8

	

Introduction to theories of cinemas and critical methodologies

	

1^st & 3^rd May

	

2

9 & 10

	

Neo-realism after WW II and the French New Wave

	

5^th & 8^th May

	

2

11 & 12

	

Indian cinema: Ray and Ghatak

	

10^th & 12^th May

	

2

13 & 14

	

Modernism and the European ‘art cinema’

	

15^th & 17^th May

	

2

15

	

‘Parallel cinema’ of India, the 1970s to the 90s

	

19^th May

	

1

16 & 17

	

Latin American cinema

	

22^nd & 24^th May

	

2

18

	

The US ‘indie’ film

	

26^th May

	

1

19 & 20

	

Japanese cinema

	

29^th & 31^st May

	

2

21 & 22

	

Documentary cinema: history, contemporary developments

	

2^nd & 5^th June

	

2

23

	

Contemporary world cinemas: Iranian cinema, Greek, New narratives, 
African cinema

	

7^th June

	

1

24

	

Review and conclusion

	

9^th June

	

1

For more details, contact: Jacob at cometmedia at vsnl.net or speak to him 
at 23869052 or23826674 on any working day.

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