[Reader-list] Online course: Introduction to Film Studies

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Please find below a link to the course "Introduction to Film Studies" freely available online:

http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/courses/109106079/6



COURSE OUTLINE

 


The objective of this course is to enable students to understand the language of cinema and to help them recognize significant film movements and theories as well as filmmakers who have shaped the course of world cinema, along with a reading of key cinematic texts.




Expected Learning Outcome:

Students would be trained to understand the language of cinema, film narrative
and the history of cinema, and would be equipped to approach and appreciate cinema in an academic way. They would also become familiar with a brief history of cinema and key theoretical aspects such as formalism, structuralism/poststructuralism, modernism/postmodernism, semiotics, iconography and reception studies.




Download Syllabus in PDF format : http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/syllabus/syllabus_pdf/109106079.pdf 


PREREQUISITES
Students are expected to be aware of some of the important international cinematic trends, movements and genres as well as filmmakers.

REFERENCES
Andrew, Dudley The Major Film Theories: An Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976.
Altman, Rick. Film/Genre. London: BFI, 1999.
Bazin, Andre. What is Cinema? Foreword by Francois Truffaut. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.
Boggs, Joseph M. & Petrie, Dennis W. The Art of Watching Films. 7th ed. NY: McGraw-Hill, 2008.
Braudy, Leo & Cohen, Marshall (eds). Film Theory and Criticism.5th ed.NY & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Cook, David A. A History of Narrative Film. 4th ed. NY & London: WW Norton & Company, 2004.
Cook, Pam. The Cinema Book. 3rd ed. London: BFI, 2007.
Deleuze, Giles. Cinema 1 &2. Hugh Tomlinson & Barbara Habberjam (trans). London & NY: Continuum, 1986.
Etherington-Wright, Christine & Doughty, Ruth. Understanding Film Theory. London: Palgrave, 2011.

RELATED LINKS
http://myweb.wvnet.edu/~jelkins/film04/theory.html
http://old.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/polls/topten/
http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/polls-surveys/greatest-films-all-time

ADDITIONAL READINGS
Genette, Gerard. Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method. Jane E. Lewin (trans). NY: Cornell University Press, 1980.
Gair, Christopher. The American Counterculture. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007.
Truffaut, Francois. The Films in My Life. Leonard Mayhew (Trans). NY: De Capo, 1994.



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- Rohit 
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