InfoCoBuild

Film Appreciation

Film Appreciation. Instructor: Prof. Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras. The course focuses on helping the participants to appreciate cinema by understanding its distinct language, its narrative complexity and the way films control and stimulate our thoughts and feelings. Through various examples from Indian and international cinema, the course will explain how cinema as a visual medium, engages with us in constructing meaning. (from nptel.ac.in)

Lecture 14 - Melodrama


Go to the Course Home or watch other lectures:

Introduction
Lecture 01 - Introduction
Key Concepts
Lecture 02 - Key Concepts, Part 1
Lecture 03 - Key Concepts, Part 2
Film Theory
Lecture 04 - Film Theory
Genre Theory
Lecture 05 - Genre Theory
Traditions in World Cinema
Lecture 06 - German Expressionism
Lecture 07 - Italian Neo-Realism
Lecture 08 - French New Wave
Lecture 09 - Spanish Cinema
Lecture 10 - British New Wave
Lecture 11 - Chinese Cinema
Action Cinema
Lecture 12 - Action Cinema
Lecture 13 - Deewar
Aspects of Cinema
Lecture 14 - Melodrama
Lecture 15 - Formalism in Cinema
Lecture 16 - The Language of Cinema
Lecture 17 - Devdas
Lecture 18 - City Cinema
Semiotics in Cinema
Lecture 19 - The Semiotics of Cinema
Lecture 20 - Raging Bull
Lecture 21 - Robert Bresson
Studio Cinema
Lecture 22 - Studio Cinema, Part 1
Lecture 23 - Studio Cinema, Part 2
New Hollywood Cinema
Lecture 24 - New Hollywood Cinema, Part 1
Lecture 25 - New Hollywood Cinema, Part 2
History of Hindi Cinema
Lecture 26 - History of Hindi Cinema, Part 1
Lecture 27 - History of Hindi Cinema, Part 2
Lecture 28 - History of Hindi Cinema, Part 3
Aspects of Cinema
Lecture 29 - Ideology in Cinema
Lecture 30 - Character in Cinema
Cinema in India
Lecture 31 - Mythological Cinema in India
Lecture 32 - The Cinema of Satyajit Ray
Lecture 33 - Hindi Film Music
Lecture 34 - The Hollywood Musicals
Lecture 35 - African Cinema
Lecture 36 - Iranian Cinema
Lecture 37 - Canadian Cinema
Lecture 38 - Eastern European Cinema
Lecture 39 - European Cinema: Hungary, Sweden, Greece
Lecture 40 - Postmodernism and Cinema
Lecture 41 - Small Towns in Cinema
Lecture 42 - Film Sequels, Remarks and Cult Films
Lecture 43 - Parallel Cinema from India