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Introduction to Film Studies

Introduction to Film Studies. Instructor: Prof. Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras. The objective of this course is to enable students to understand the language of cinema and to help them recognize significant film movements and theories as well as filmmakers who have shaped the course of world cinema, along with a reading of key cinematic texts. (from nptel.ac.in)

Lecture 15 - The French Masters

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Lecture 01 - Course Overview

Lecture 02 - Cinema and Semiotics

Lecture 03 - Cinema and Semiotics (cont.)

Lecture 04 - Plot in Cinema

Lecture 05 - Plot in Cinema (cont.)

Lecture 06 - Character as a Plot Element

Lecture 07 - Editing in Cinema

Lecture 08 - Realism in Cinema

Lecture 09 - Colour: Theory and Practice

Lecture 10 - Intertextuality

Lecture 11 - Intertextuality (cont.)

Lecture 12 - Intertextuality (cont.)

Lecture 13 - Cinema and Modernism

Lecture 14 - Cinema and Modernism (cont.)

Lecture 15 - The French Masters

Lecture 16 - The French Masters (cont.)

Lecture 17 - The French Masters (cont.)

Lecture 18 - Canonical Text

Lecture 19 - Canonical Text (cont.)

Lecture 20 - Canonical Text (cont.)

Lecture 21 - The Academy Awards

Lecture 22 - Classic Hollywood

Lecture 23 - Classic Hollywood (cont.)

Lecture 24 - Classic Hollywood (cont.)

Lecture 25 - Case Study

Lecture 26 - Stars as Icons

Lecture 27 - Cinema and the Counterculture Movement

Lecture 28 - Italian Cinema

Lecture 29 - Japanese Cinema

Lecture 30 - Auteur Theory in the USA

Lecture 31 - Auteur Theory in the USA (cont.)

Lecture 32 - New Hollywood

Lecture 33 - New Hollywood (cont.)

Lecture 34 - New Hollywood (cont.)

Lecture 35 - New Hollywood (cont.)

Lecture 36 - Cinema and Genres

Lecture 37 - Cinema and Genres (cont.)

Lecture 38 - Postmodernism and Cinema

Lecture 39 - Postmodernism and Cinema (cont.)

Lecture 40 - The Western