Cinemas of India | Humanities & Social Sciences

Cinemas of India

Course Number: 
HSL678
LTP structure: 
3-0-0
Discipline: 
Multi. Disc.
Credit: 
3.0

Pre-requisite

N/A

Course Objective

· Introduce and study the culture and society of the largest film producing country in the world
· Understand and evaluate the cultural and social implications of evaluating the global reach of cinemas made in the Indian subcontinent within and outside India
· Investigate how cinemas of India (theoretically) relate to scholarships across the world as well as the peripheries within the subcontinent
· Use critical tools that not only combine historical and thematic frameworks to study cinemas in India but also unravel its complex relationships as cultural industry and textuality to the social, economic, political, ideological, aesthetic, technical and institutional discourses
· Demonstrate familiarity to discuss and illustrate arguments, and establish a broader understanding and relationship of an up-to-date critical narrative on diverse topics such as spectators, gaze, camera-look, censorship, film distribution, film industry, diaspora, sexuality, caste and gender, film music, language and identity, national and regional contingents
· Provide a comprehensive and cutting-edge survey of cinemas of India discussing popular, parallel/new wave and regional cinemas as well the spectacular rise of Bollywood

Faculty

Course Content

This course introduces studies on Cinemas of India that foreground the South Asian region with a film and cultural studies focus. The following theoretical approaches, topics and themes will be taught: Cinemas of India: introduction and theory; Bollywood and the Hindi film; regional cinemas; themes and perspectives; the business of cinema in India; cinema experience and audiences.

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