Jadavpur University Film Studies Kolkata

I have completed BA and now want to do Master of Arts in Film Studies from the Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University so please give me details about its admission process? What is the eligibility criteria required for admission?

I want to take admission in UG Course offered by Department of Film Studies of Jadavpur University Kolkata. I need its syllabus, so tell me on which site I can download syllabus of UG Course offered by Department of Film Studies of Jadavpur University Kolkata?

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The Department of Film Studies of Jadavpur University Kolkata was established in 1993.

The Department offers following UG and PG Programs:

BA (ED)
MA
PhD

As you want syllabus of UG Course of Department of Film Studies for your reference:

Jadavpur University BA (Extra-Departmental) Syllabus:
(Department of Film Studies)

SEMESTER I:
Cinematic Conventions 1
The course will introduce some major international styles of filmmaking through textual analyses of representative films. The selection of films will change from time to time.

Any 4 of the following will be selected
1. Surrealism
2. Expressionism
3. Neorealism
4. French Nouvelle Vague
5. Soviet Avant-Garde

Suggested Readings:
Richard Abel, French Cinema: The First Wave (1915-1929), 1984.

Rudolf Kuenzli , Dada and Surrealist Film, in Elizabeth Ezra (ed), European Cinema, 2004.

Selected essays from Alexander Graf and Dietrich Scheunemann (eds), Avant-Garde Film, 2007.

Malcolm Turvey, Surrealism and Un Chien Andalou, in The Filming of Modern Life: European Avant-Garde Film of the 1920s, 2011.

Peter William Evans, An Amour Still Fou: Late Bunuel, in Graeme Harper and Rob Stone (eds), The Unsilvered Screen: Surrealism on Film, 2007.

Barbara Creed, The Untamed Eye and the Dark Side of Surrealism: Hitchcock, Lynch and Cronenberg, in Harper and Stone (eds), The Unsilvered Screen, 2007.

Lotte H Eisner, The Haunted Screen: Expressionism in the German Cinema, and the Influence of Max Reinhardt, 1965.

Siegfried Kracauer, From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German
Film, 1974.

Understanding American Cinema
1. The Industrial Form
2. Genre (case study of one major genre from Classical Hollywood Cinema)

And any 2 from the following:
3. Auteurs and the system
4. Melodrama
5. Direct Cinema and subcultures
6. New Hollywood and modernism
7. Cult Cinema and Midnight Movies

Suggested Readings:
Selections from David Bordwell, Janet Staiger and Kristin Thompson (eds), The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style & Mode of Production to 1960, 1985.

David Bordwell, Classical Narration: The Hollywood Example, in Narration in Fiction Film, 1985.
Dirk Eitzen, Evolution, Functionalism, and the Study of American Cinema, The Velvet Light Trap, Fall 1991.
Elizabeth Cowie, Storytelling: Classical Hollywood Cinema and Classical Narrative, in Steve Neale and
Murray Smith (eds), Contemporary Hollywood Cinema, 1998.
Selections from Thomas Elsaesser, The Persistence of Hollywood, 2012.

SEMESTER II:
Conventions in Indian Cinema: Mainstreams and Alternatives
The following areas will be introduced through film analysis

1. Realism and Modernism (will include Ray and Ghatak)
2. The studio Social (analysis of representative film)
3. The 1950s new melodrama
4. The 1970s mass film
5. Contemporary styles (Bollywood and others)

Suggested Readings:
Sections from Satyajit Ray, Our Films, Their Films, 1993 and Speaking of Films, 2005.

Sections from Ritwik Ghatak, Rows and Rows of Fences: Ritwik Ghatak on Cinema, 2000.
Sections from Ritwik Ghatak, Chalacchitra manush ebong aaro kichu, 2005.
Selected essays from Moinak Biswas (ed), Apu and After: Re-visting Rays Cinema, 2005.

Richard Allen, Pather Panchali, in Lalitha Gopalan (ed), The Cinema of India, 2010.

Ira Bhaskar, Myth and Ritual: Ghataks Meghe Dhaka Tara, Journal of Arts and Ideas, April-June 1983.
Raymond Bellour, The Film We Accompany, 2004, Rouge, No 3.
Madhuja Mukherjee, Part II: Devdas and Parvati, in New Theatres Ltd., The Emblem of Art, The Picture of Success, 2009.


Contacts
Head Of The Department : Dr. Madhuja Mukherjee
Ph.: 2414-6689 (O)
Extn-2457-2467
E-mail:hod@filmst.jdvu.ac.in