Film Form
BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE, PILANI INSTRUCTION DIVISION FIRST SEMESTER 2012-2013 Course Handout (Part-II) Date: 12/12/2012 In addition to part-I (General Handout for all courses appended to the time table) this portion gives further specific details regarding the course. Course No. Course Title Instructor-in-charge : HSS 332/HUM C332 : Cinematic Art : Olympia Bhatt
1. Scope and Objective of the Course: This course is a theoretical approach to study films as a text. It will include an extended study of film form and provide necessary vocabulary to analyse films. There will also be an additional section on Indian cinema. 2. Text Book: David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson. Film Art: An Introduction. SEVENTH EDITION. New York: McGraw-Hill Inc., 2004. 3. Reference Book: 1. Richard Maltby Hollywood Cinema Blackwell Publishing, 2003 2. Ed. R L Rutsky, Jeffrey Gieger Film Analysis: A Norton Reader Norton Publishing 2005 3. Ed. Pam Cook and Mieke Bernink The Cinema Book British Film Institute 2007 4. Madhava Prasad Ideology of the Hindi Film OUP 2000 5. Tejaswini Ganti A Guide to Popular Hindi Cinema Routledge 2004 4. Course Plan: Week No. 1 Learning Objectives Scope of the course Topics to be covered 1.1. The discipline of Film Studies 1.2. Interdisciplinary and theoretical approach in Film Studies 2-5 Film form: Narrative and Style 2.1. 2.2. Film Form Narrative Principles Chap 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9 + Reference Unit Chap 1, 12 + Film
6 7-9
Film Style Film Analysis
10-14
Indian Cinema: Form and Style
15-16
Contemporary Films
and Construction Films 2.3. Mise-en-scene 2.4. Cinematographic Properties 2.5. Editing 2.6. Sound 3.1. The concept of film style Chap 5, 10 + Films 4.1. Classical Narrative Chapter Cinema 11, 12 + 4.2. Genres and Cinema Films 4.3. Narrative Alternatives 5.1. Nation and Cinema TBD 5.2. Indian Aesthetics and film form 5.3. Theorising Indian film form 5.4. Melodrama and Indian film 5.5. Brief Introduction to many Indian
1. Scope and Objective of the Course: This course is a theoretical approach to study films as a text. It will include an extended study of film form and provide necessary vocabulary to analyse films. There will also be an additional section on Indian cinema. 2. Text Book: David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson. Film Art: An Introduction. SEVENTH EDITION. New York: McGraw-Hill Inc., 2004. 3. Reference Book: 1. Richard Maltby Hollywood Cinema Blackwell Publishing, 2003 2. Ed. R L Rutsky, Jeffrey Gieger Film Analysis: A Norton Reader Norton Publishing 2005 3. Ed. Pam Cook and Mieke Bernink The Cinema Book British Film Institute 2007 4. Madhava Prasad Ideology of the Hindi Film OUP 2000 5. Tejaswini Ganti A Guide to Popular Hindi Cinema Routledge 2004 4. Course Plan: Week No. 1 Learning Objectives Scope of the course Topics to be covered 1.1. The discipline of Film Studies 1.2. Interdisciplinary and theoretical approach in Film Studies 2-5 Film form: Narrative and Style 2.1. 2.2. Film Form Narrative Principles Chap 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9 + Reference Unit Chap 1, 12 + Film
6 7-9
Film Style Film Analysis
10-14
Indian Cinema: Form and Style
15-16
Contemporary Films
and Construction Films 2.3. Mise-en-scene 2.4. Cinematographic Properties 2.5. Editing 2.6. Sound 3.1. The concept of film style Chap 5, 10 + Films 4.1. Classical Narrative Chapter Cinema 11, 12 + 4.2. Genres and Cinema Films 4.3. Narrative Alternatives 5.1. Nation and Cinema TBD 5.2. Indian Aesthetics and film form 5.3. Theorising Indian film form 5.4. Melodrama and Indian film 5.5. Brief Introduction to many Indian