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Academic Year 2002/2003
Cinema, Culture, and Politics in India
ANTH 288 FA
This course will explore the links between cinema, political culture, and society in India. Concentrating on Bengal and taking a broadly historical and symbolic interpretive approach to Indian culture, we shall explore
Indian
and comparative esthetics; economic and social contexts of film production; regional, alternative, and popular cinemas.
MAJOR READINGS
J. Maquet, AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE (Yale) Barnouw & Krishnaswamy, INDIAN FILM (OUP) A. Ostor, CULTURE AND POWER (Sage) G. Roberge, ANOTHER CINEMA FOR ANOTHER SOCIETY (Academic) L. Dumont, RELIGION/POLITICS AND
HISTORY IN INDIA (Mouton) S. Ray, OUR
CINEMA/THEIR CINEMA Articles or chapters by Fruzzetti, Madan, Nandy, Ramanujan, Das, Dasgupta. About 16 feature films will be screened, among them the works of Satyajitv Ray, Mrinal Sen, Buddhadev Dasgupta, Shyam
Benegal, Keetan Mehta, Adoor
Gopalakrishnam, Aravindan, Govind Nihalani.
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Short papers, one in-class test and a longer take home final.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
One social science and/or one cinema course LAB FEE OF $40.00 Tuesday evening screenings of above films. Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor
prior to the first class, they will
be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.
COURSE FORMAT:
Lecture
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS ANTH
Grading Mode:
Graded
Prerequisites:
NONE
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Last Updated on MAR-18-2003
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