Theme - A: The Component of Films

      A-1: The material and equipment

     A-2: The story, screenplay and script

     A-3: The actors, crew members, and the director

     A-4: The process of filmmaking… structure of a film

Theme - B: Evolution of Film Language

     B-1: Film language, form, movement, etc.

     B-2: Early cinema… silent film (Particularly French)

     B-3: The emergence of feature films: Birth of a Nation

     B-4: Talkies

Theme - C: Film Theories and Criticism/Appreciation

     C-1: Realist theory; Auteurists

     C-2: Psychoanalytic, Ideological, Feminists

     C-3: How to read films?

     C-4: Film Criticism / Appreciation

Theme – D: Development of Films

     D-1: Representative Soviet films

     D-2: Representative Japanese films

     D-3: Representative Italian films

     D-4: Representative Hollywood film and the studio system

Theme - E: Indian Films

     E-1: The early era

     E-2: The important films made by the directors

     E-3: The regional films

     E-4: The documentaries in India

READING:

     A Reader containing important articles on films will be prepared and given to the students. The students must read them and present them in the class and have a discussion on them.