NPTEL : Introduction to Film Studies (Humanities and Social Sciences)

Co-ordinators : Dr. Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan


Lecture 1 - Course Overview

Lecture 2 - Cinema & Semiotics

Lecture 3 - Cinema & Semiotics (Continued...)

Lecture 4 - Plot in Cinema

Lecture 5 - Plot in Cinema (Continued...)

Lecture 6 - Character as a plot element

Lecture 7 - Editing in Cinema

Lecture 8 - Realism in Cinema

Lecture 9 - Colour : Theory & Practice

Lecture 10 - Intertextuality

Lecture 11 - Intertextuality (Continued...)

Lecture 12 - Intertextuality (Continued...)

Lecture 13 - Cinema & Modernism

Lecture 14 - Cinema and Modernism (Continued...)

Lecture 15 - The French Masters

Lecture 16 - The French Masters (Continued...)

Lecture 17 - The French Masters (Continued...)

Lecture 18 - Canonical Text

Lecture 19 - Canonical Text (Continued...)

Lecture 20 - Canonical Text (Continued...)

Lecture 21 - The Academy Awards

Lecture 22 - Classic Hollywood

Lecture 23 - Classic Hollywood (Continued...)

Lecture 24 - Classic Hollywood (Continued...)

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 (Continued...)

Lecture 32 - New Hollywood

Lecture 33 - New Hollywood (Continued...)

Lecture 34 - New Hollywood (Continued...)

Lecture 35 - New Hollywood (Continued...)

Lecture 36 - Cinema and Genres

Lecture 37 - Cinema and Genres (Continued...)

Lecture 38 - Postmodernism and Cinema

Lecture 39 - Postmodernism & Cinema (Continued...)

Lecture 40 - The Western