Film Appreciation

L-12 INTRODUCTION 1. Language and Grammar of Cinema 2. Cinema as a Cultural Product 3. Various approaches to analysing a Film: Representation, Ideology, Auteur, Genre, Narrative 4. Understanding the elements of form of Cinema 5. Genres and Related Conventions 6. Film Theorists: Lindsay Anderson, Hugo Munsterberg, Rudolf Arnheim, Siegfried Kracauer, Sergei Eisenstein, Andre Bazin, Christian Metz, Laura Mulvey 7. Non-fiction Cinema SCREENINGS (Following films to be used as main references. Parts of some of these films may be screened for the class.) Battleship Potemkin (1925, USSR) by Sergei Eisenstein The Zoo (1962, Netherlands) by Bert Hanstra The Glass (1958, Netherlands) by Bert Hanstra Berlin: Symphony of a City (1927, Germany) by Walter Ruttmann Citizen Kane (1941, USA) by Orson Welles Pather Panchali (1955, India) by Satyajit Ray Rashomon (1950, Japan) by Akira Kurosawa Dancer in the Dark (2000, USA) by Lars Von Tier In the Mood For Love (2000, Hongkong, China) by Wong kar Wai Three Colours - Red (1994, France, Poland, Switzerland) by Krzystof Kieslowski