IIT Madras Course , Prof. Aysha Iqbal Viswamoha
Overview
Contents:
Course Overview - Cinema & Semiotics,Seven (1995) - Plot in Cinema - Conflict as a plot element - Character as a plot element - Editing in Cinema - Montage - Jump-cut - Realism in Cinema - Colour : Theory & Practice Intertextuality,Casablanca (1942),The Matrix (1999) -
Cinema & Modernism : The Lumiere Brothers - George Melies - Carl Dreyer - Charlie Chaplin - Buster Keaton - F.W. Murnau - Fritz Lang - Jean Cocteau - Max Ophuls - The French Masters,Jean Renoir,Robert Bresson,What is a canon?
Canonical Text : Citizen Kane (1940) - The Godfather (1972/1974)
The Academy Awards : Case study: My Left Foot (1989) and Daniel Day-Lewis - Method Acting
Classic Hollywood : The Hays Code - The Studio Years - Major filmmakers
Classic Hollywood : Major filmmakers (George Stevens, William Wyler, Billy Wilder, Elia Kazan, George Cukor ) - Melodrama - Major filmmakers - Melodrama: Cinema of Douglas Sirk
German Expressionism : Film noir - Case study: Otto Premingers Laura (1944) - Neo-noir -Case study: Martin Scorseses Taxi Driver (1976) - Stars as IconsCase study: The Stardom of James Dean
Fandoms
Cinema and the Counterculture Movement : The Beat Generation - Woodstock Nation - Easy Rider (1968)
Italian cinema : Italian Neo-Realism - Italian Masters
Japanese Cinema : Major Filmmakers - Major Trends
Auteur Theory in the USA : Andrew Sarris - Alfred Hitchcock - Alfred Hitchcock as an Auteur - Case study: Rope (1948)
New Hollywood : Major filmmakers - Major texts - Major filmmakers - Major texts - The French Connection (1971) - Case study : opening sequence of Mean Streets(1973)
New Hollywood : Major filmmakers - Major texts - The End of the New Hollywood - George Lucas and Steven Spielberg - New Hollywood Auteur: Woody Allen - Case study: Manhattan (1979 )
Cinema and Genres : Dudley Andrews - Rick Altman - Gangster as a Genre - Genre Blending and Genre Bending - Quentin Tarantinos films
Postmodernism and Cinema : Key Theorists - Linda Hutcheon - Ihab Hasan - Fredric Jameson
Case study: Face /off (1997) - The self-conscious cinema - Natural Born Killers - Wag the Dog
The Western : The Westerns of Sam Peckinpah,The Myth of the American West - No Country for Old Men (2007) - There Will be Blood (2007)
Lecture Details
Introduction to Film Studies by Dr. Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras. For more details on NPTEL visit httpnptel.iitm.ac.in