NPTEL : NOC:Literature, Culture and Media (Humanities and Social Sciences)

Co-ordinators : Prof. Rashmi Gaur


Lecture 1 - Introduction Aims and Objectives

Lecture 2 - Defining Literature

Lecture 3 - Defining Culture

Lecture 4 - Relationship between Literature and Culture

Lecture 5 - Literature, Culture and Media

Lecture 6 - Introduction to Cultural Studies

Lecture 7 - Cultural Studies I: Raymond Williams

Lecture 8 - Cultural Studies II: Stuart Hall

Lecture 9 - High Culture and Popular Culture

Lecture 10 - Subculture and Counterculture

Lecture 11 - Modernism and Postmodernism - I

Lecture 12 - Modernism and Postmodernism - II

Lecture 13 - Lyotards The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge

Lecture 14 - Foucault’s Notion of Knowledge and Power

Lecture 15 - Poststructuralism and Deconstruction

Lecture 16 - Introduction to Feminism - I

Lecture 17 - Introduction to Feminism - II

Lecture 18 - Theories of Gender

Lecture 19 - Men's and Masculinity Studies

Lecture 20 - Queer Studies and Representations of Gender in Media

Lecture 21 - Intersectionality

Lecture 22 - Introduction to Postcolonial Theory

Lecture 23 - Key Concepts in Postcolonial theory

Lecture 24 - Said, Spivak and Bhabha

Lecture 25 - Postcolonial Reading of Achebe and Amitav Ghosh

Lecture 26 - Theories of Ideology

Lecture 27 - Adorno and Horkheimer on Culture

Lecture 28 - 1. Culture Industry and Mass Deception; 2. Walter Benjamin

Lecture 29 - Interconnections between Literature, Culture and Identity: Woolf and Deshpande - I

Lecture 30 - Interconnections between Literature, Culture and Identity: Woolf and Deshpande - II

Lecture 31 - The Evolution of Media: Print forms

Lecture 32 - Media and Culture - I

Lecture 33 - Media and Culture - II

Lecture 34 - Media, Culture and Technology

Lecture 35 - Harold Innis

Lecture 36 - Introduction to Marshall McLuhan

Lecture 37 - Media and the Electric Age

Lecture 38 - Hot and Cool Media

Lecture 39 - Postmodern Media - I

Lecture 40 - Postmodern Media - II and Formation of Public Opinion

Lecture 41 - Word and the Image: Drama, Photography, Birth of the Cinema

Lecture 42 - Film and Literature - I

Lecture 43 - Film and Literature - II

Lecture 44 - Language of Films: Mise-en-scene, Type of Shots, Camera angles/movements, Montage

Lecture 45 - Reading of 12 Years a Slave: Film and Text

Lecture 46 - Development of Media: Radio

Lecture 47 - Development of Media: Television

Lecture 48 - Film, Television and Literature

Lecture 49 - Impact of Technology on Literary Genres: Novel

Lecture 50 - Media in the 21st Century

Lecture 51 - Approaches to Digital Forms of Media

Lecture 52 - Literature, Internet and Culture

Lecture 53 - Digital Culture, Media, and Literature

Lecture 54 - Representation of Partition in Different Media: A historical and Cultural Analysis - I

Lecture 55 - Representation of Partition in Different Media: A historical and Cultural Analysis - II

Lecture 56 - Game Studies - I

Lecture 57 - Game Studies - II

Lecture 58 - Body Culture Studies and Representation of Women in the Media

Lecture 59 - Media and Gender

Lecture 60 - Media and Language, Glass Ceiling in Media