Course Overview
An overview of Film History Social Context of Filmmaking: relationships of Filmmakers to their milieuAnalysis of Selected Classics of Cinema: Common themes and individuals styles, similarities and contrasts in styles Asian Cinema: Film directors Akira Kurosawa, Mizoguchi and Kiarostami European Cinema: Film Directors Godard, Truffaut, Bergman and FelliniRussian Cinema: film directos Anderi Tarkovsky Ameriacn Cinema: Film directors Sidney Lumet and Stanely KubrickWriting of a film diary of required film viewing A long form essay on any filmmaker would be a final requirement for completion of the course.
| Total Credits | 6.0 |
| Type | Theory |
| Lecture | 3.0 |
| Half Semester | N |
| Text Reference | Bazin, Andre,What is Cinema? Volumes1 and 2. University of California Press, 2004 Richie, Donald, The Films of Akira Kurosowa.Tramquebar Press, 2009 Kurosawa, Akira. Something Like and Autobiography, Random House,1983 Wajda, Andzej. Double Vision. Faber 1989 Bergman, Ingmar. the Magic Lantern. Univeristy of Chicago Press, 2008 Lumet, Sidney, Making Movies,Random House 1996 Fellini, Federcio. fellini on Fellini, Da Capo Press 1996 |
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Prof. Mazhar Kamran
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