HU5274: Film Appreciation Syllabus for ECE 7th Sem 2019 Regulation Anna University (Humanities Elective-II)

Film Appreciation detailed syllabus for Electronics & Communication Engineering (ECE) for 2019 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the ECE students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.

For Electronics & Communication Engineering 7th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit ECE 7th Sem 2019 regulation scheme. For Humanities Elective-II scheme and its subjects refer to ECE Humanities Elective-II syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of film appreciation is as follows.

Film Appreciation

Course Description

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Course Objective:

To help learners understand the various movie genres and its types.
To understand various elements that contributes to film making.
To make them realize the impact of film in society.
To analyse the visual media and interpret the underlying messages.

Unit I

Unit II

Evolution of Film
History of Films – Early Cinema – Silent Movies – Talkies – Film Language, Form, Movement – Film Theories – Realist, Auteurists, Feminist, Psychonalyic, Idealogical Theories.

Unit III

Unit IV

Indian Films
The Early Era – History Of Indian Cinema – Movies for Social Change – Hindi Movies that Created Impact – Regional Movies – Documentaries – Cultural Identity.

Unit V

Course Outcome:

On completion of the course, the students will be able to:

Recognize types of films, their impact on society and their roles in our lives.
Have an understanding of the concepts of storytelling, Mise en Scene, and other elements of film making.
Interpret the underlying messages in the movies.

Teaching Methods

Each unit consists of reading materials, learning activities videos, websites. Students are expected to watch movies sometimes in class and at times at home and discuss in class.

Evaluation

Internal (100 % Weightage)

Assignment 1: Write a movie review with critical analysis (20 marks).
Assignment2 : Write a script for a scene taken from a short story / novella (20 marks).
Presentation: Students choose any one topic related to films and present it to the audience. (25 marks)
Group discussion : Students discuss in groups on the various aspects of movies and its impact on society. (25 marks)
Blog entry: Making weekly blog posts in Class Blog on the topics related to the course posted by the instructor and commenting on others” posts. (10 marks)

References:

A Biographical Dictionary of Film by David Thomson, Secker and Warburg, 1975
Signs and Meaning in the Cinema by Peter Wollen, Secker and Warburg, 1969
The World Viewed by Stanley Cavell 1971
Film Style and Technology: History and Analysis by Barry Salt, Starword, 1983
The Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema Edited by Ashish Rajadhyaksha and Paul Willemen, BFI, 1994.

For detailed syllabus of all the other subjects of Electronics & Communication Engineering 7th Sem, visit ECE 7th Sem subject syllabuses for 2019 regulation.

For all Electronics & Communication Engineering results, visit Anna University ECE all semester results direct link.

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