ENGFLM 1410 - BOLLYWOOD AND INDIAN CINEMA

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Long Description This course will offer an overview of various Indian cinema traditions in their historical, aesthetic, and cultural contexts. Students will learn how to analyze Indian films from the 1920s to the present in terms of formal techniques, narrative conventions, and viewing contexts and also in terms of broader historical contexts such as colonialism and the independence movement. The history and formal conventions of Mainstream Bombay Cinema will be counterpointed with other kinds of Indian film. This is a Critical Studies course and counts for Category I towards the Film and Media Studies major and minor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: Asian Studies, DSAS Cross-Cult. Awareness General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Diversity General Ed. Requirement, Film Studies, SCI Diversity General Ed. Requirements, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req.

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