Master of Arts (MA Cinema Studies)

Course Information :

This programme helps students explore key developments in film theory from the modern to postmodern period. The emphasis is on the way in which film theory has developed from the 1970s to the present in response to social and cultural change. Films are analysed from the viewpoint of different theoretical positions to demonstrate the relative nature of criticism. Selected films by the European, American, Asian and Indian directors are studied. Students complete the degree with a knowledge and understanding of key developments in film theory, including a sense that theory itself is ideological, and be able to recognize the role of the auteur in the creation of a work of art. The Institute encourages aspiring students to be teaching assistants for other courses on the campus. Year 1 : Introduction to Hollywood & Art Cinema Introduction to Film Theory Asian Cinema Bollywood Studies Contemporary Hollywood Cinema Television Culture Postcolonialism and the Cinema Film and the Body Year 2 : Art House Cinema & Film Festival Culture Italian National Cinemas Feminist Film and Television Theory Commodity Culture Genre Study The Entertainment Experience Film Noir: Style and History Surrealism and the Cinema City as Film Love Stories: Film and Narrative Theory Cinema Studies Thesis Research Methods Contemporary Film Theory Computer Games:Interactive Spectatorship Film Criticism and the Canon Ethnographic and Documentary Cinema Postmodernism and the Cinema Melodrama, Class and the Cinema Hitchcock, Film and Art Dream Screen: Film and Psychoanalysis Comedy, Cult and the Carnivalesque Film, Modernity and the Avant-Garde

Coursework & Assessment :

The assessment criteria are of two phases. A formative system of assessment ensures that all the practical assignments, group discussions, seminars and written assignments in each subject are graded. The formal or summative written and practical assessment is done at the end of each semester.

Careers :

There is a range of careers open to post graduates in the field of education & criticism. The students pursuing this programme will be equipped to be cinema and television critics. A film studies post graduate can seek employment also as a film studies teacher.