Introduction to Indian Cinema: 'Bollywood' and Beyond
FILM 329
Spring 2020 not offered
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| Certificates: South Asia Studies, South Asia Studies Minor |
India is one of the world's largest film-producing nations, releasing over 900 films every year. The Indian film industry remains an exceptional industry, holding its own against Hollywood's expansion into markets like India. This course will provide a historical and thematic introduction to Indian cinema, with a particular focus on Bombay cinema or Hindi-Urdu-language popular Indian cinema that constitutes Indian national cinema.
Some of the questions that we will explore: Why (and if) we must take the "popular" seriously, and what vocabularies are suitable with which to discuss the popular in non-Western realms? What role do phenomena like globalization, diaspora, and transnationalism play in the evolution of Hindi popular cinema and its genres over the decades? How do these "song and dance" movies challenge our commonplace perceptions of narrative forms? How must we account for distinctions or similarities between Hollywood and Indian cinema when we use terms like melodrama, discuss gender and sexuality, consider class, assess genre, or encounter the term "Bollywood"? |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA FILM |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: FIILM307 |
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Fulfills a Major Requirement for: (CEAS-MN)(CEAS)(FILM-MN)(FILM)(GSAS-MN)(GSAS) |
Major Readings:
REQUIRED TEXT:
Tejaswani Ganti, BOLLYWOOD: A GUIDEBOOK TO POPULAR HINDI CINEMA, New York: Routledge, 2013).
RECOMMENDED TEXTS:
K. Moti Gokulsing and Wimal Dissanayake (Eds.) ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF INDIAN CINEMAS. London & New York: Routledge, 2013.
Erik Barnouw and S. Krishnaswamy. INDIAN FILM. New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1963.
Rachel Dwyer and Diviya Patel. CINEMA INDIA: THE VISUAL CULTURE OF HINDI FILM. New Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers University Press: 2002.
Ranjani Mazumdar. BOMBAY CINEMA: AN ARCHIVE OF THE CITY. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
M. Madhava Prasad, IDEOLOGY OF THE HINDI FILM: A HISTORICAL CONSTRUCTION. Oxford University Press, 2000.
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Examinations and Assignments:
3 essays in varying lengths |
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