Courses of Study 2017-2018 
    
    Mar 29, 2024  
Courses of Study 2017-2018 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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ARTH 6900 - [Bollywood and Beyond: South Asian Cinema]

(crosslisted) ASIAN 6669  
     
Not offered 2017-2018. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

Permission of instructor required. Co-meets with ARTH 3900 /ASIAN 3339 /VISST 3901 .

I. Dadi.

This course provides an introduction to selected key themes in cinema and the moving image from South Asia. The course investigates documentary, artistic, and commercial cinemas, focusing on concepts and frameworks for understanding their development and their meaning. These include questions of form and narrative, the place of cinema during social and cultural transformation, and the relationship of the moving image in South Asia to developments in global cinema. Structured as a tutorial, this is a reading and discussion intensive course with limited enrolment.



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