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Film Appreciation

Film Appreciation. Instructor: Prof. Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras. The course focuses on helping the participants to appreciate cinema by understanding its distinct language, its narrative complexity and the way films control and stimulate our thoughts and feelings. Through various examples from Indian and international cinema, the course will explain how cinema as a visual medium, engages with us in constructing meaning. (from nptel.ac.in)

Lecture 07 - Italian Neo-Realism

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Introduction

Lecture 01 - Introduction

Key Concepts

Lecture 02 - Key Concepts, Part 1

Lecture 03 - Key Concepts, Part 2

Film Theory

Lecture 04 - Film Theory

Genre Theory

Lecture 05 - Genre Theory

Traditions in World Cinema

Lecture 06 - German Expressionism

Lecture 07 - Italian Neo-Realism

Lecture 08 - French New Wave

Lecture 09 - Spanish Cinema

Lecture 10 - British New Wave

Lecture 11 - Chinese Cinema

Action Cinema

Lecture 12 - Action Cinema

Lecture 13 - Deewar

Aspects of Cinema

Lecture 14 - Melodrama

Lecture 15 - Formalism in Cinema

Lecture 16 - The Language of Cinema

Lecture 17 - Devdas

Lecture 18 - City Cinema

Semiotics in Cinema

Lecture 19 - The Semiotics of Cinema

Lecture 20 - Raging Bull

Lecture 21 - Robert Bresson

Studio Cinema

Lecture 22 - Studio Cinema, Part 1

Lecture 23 - Studio Cinema, Part 2

New Hollywood Cinema

Lecture 24 - New Hollywood Cinema, Part 1

Lecture 25 - New Hollywood Cinema, Part 2

History of Hindi Cinema

Lecture 26 - History of Hindi Cinema, Part 1

Lecture 27 - History of Hindi Cinema, Part 2

Lecture 28 - History of Hindi Cinema, Part 3

Aspects of Cinema

Lecture 29 - Ideology in Cinema

Lecture 30 - Character in Cinema

Cinema in India

Lecture 31 - Mythological Cinema in India

Lecture 32 - The Cinema of Satyajit Ray

Lecture 33 - Hindi Film Music

Lecture 34 - The Hollywood Musicals

Lecture 35 - African Cinema

Lecture 36 - Iranian Cinema

Lecture 37 - Canadian Cinema

Lecture 38 - Eastern European Cinema

Lecture 39 - European Cinema: Hungary, Sweden, Greece

Lecture 40 - Postmodernism and Cinema

Lecture 41 - Small Towns in Cinema

Lecture 42 - Film Sequels, Remarks and Cult Films

Lecture 43 - Parallel Cinema from India