Subsections
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- This course focuses on close examination and criticism of representative films from across the globe. From Lumiere brothers' invention of cinematograph (cinema as its shortened form), this art form extends from the early silent period to its present day. In exploring films belonging to different genres-animation, comedy, horror, history, drama, adventure, science fiction, Western, to name only a few-this course offers a platform for in-depth analyses and interpretations of the illustrative films including but not limited to Charlie Chaplin's City Lights (1931), Walt Disney Productions' Pinocchio (1940), Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon (1950), Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), Satyajit Ray's Shatranj Ke Khilari (1977), Govind Nihalani's Aakrosh (1980), Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980), Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982), Terry George's Hotel Rwanda (2004), Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth (2006), Christopher Nolan's The Dark Night (2008), and short films such as Jyoti Kapur Das' “Chutney,” Mihir Mahidhar's “Zero,” David Karlak's “The Candidate.”
- Gazetas, Aristides, An Introduction to World Cinema, North Carolina: McFarland, 2000.
- Hollows, Joanne, Peter Hutchings and Mark Jancovich (Eds.). The Film Studies Reader, London: Hodder Arnold Publications, 2000.
- Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey, The Oxford History of World Cinema, Oxford: Oxford UP, 1996.
- Shekhar Deshpande and Mazaj, Meta, World Cinema: A Critical Introduction, London: Routledge, 2018.
- Thorburn, David, Television as an Aesthetic Medium, Critical Studies in Mass Communication 4. 2 (1987): 161–73.
- Zizek, Slavoj, Enjoy Your Symptoms! Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out, London: Routledge Classics, 2012.
- Bergan, Ronald, The Film Book: A Complete Guide to the World of Cinema, London: Penguin Random House, 2011.
- Paul Rotha, The Film till Now: A Survey of World Cinema, Spring Books: University of Michigan, 1967.
- Robinson, David, History of World Cinema, New York: Henry Holt & Co, 1981.
- Rob Stone, Paul Cooke, Stephanie Dennison, Alex Marlow-Mann (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to World Cinema, London: Routledge, 2017.
