1. Course Overview
2. Cinema & Semiotics
3. Cinema & Semiotics II
4. Plot in Cinema
5. Plot in Cinema II
6. Character as a plot element
7. Editing in Cinema
8. Realism in Cinema
9. Colour: Theory & Practice
10. Intertextuality
11. Intertextuality II
12. Intertextuality III
13. Cinema & Modernism
14. Cinema and Modernism II
15. The French Masters
16. The French Masters II
17. The French Masters III
18. Canonical Text
19. Canonical Text II
20. Canonical Text III
21. The Academy Awards
22. Classic Hollywood
23. Classic Hollywood II
24. Classic Hollywood III
25. Case Study
26. Stars as Icons
27. Cinema and the Counterculture Movement
28. Italian Cinema
29. Japanese Cinema
30. Auteur Theory in the USA
31. Auteur Theory in the USA II
32. New Hollywood
33. New Hollywood II
34. New Hollywood III
35. New Hollywood IV
36. Cinema and Genres
37. Cinema and Genres II
38. Postmodernism & Cinema
39. Postmodernism & Cinema II
40. The Western

The objective of this course is to enable students to understand the language of cinema and to help them recognize significant film movements and theories as well as filmmakers who have shaped the course of world cinema, along with a reading of key cinematic texts.

Expected Learning Outcome: Students would be trained to understand the language of cinema, film narrative and the history of cinema, and would be equipped to approach and appreciate cinema in an academic way. They would also become familiar with a brief history of cinema and key theoretical aspects such as formalism, structuralism/poststructuralism, modernism/postmodernism, semiotics, iconography and reception studies.

This is an Introduction to Film Studies course by Dr. Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras.