Master of Arts (MA Cinema Studies)

Eligibility:

Candidate should have passed the Bachelor's degree (after 10+2) offered by a recognised university.

Course Description:

Rai University, Ahmedabad is offering Master of Arts (MA Cinema Studies). In this section, learn about the Master of Arts (MA Cinema Studies) course at Rai University, Ahmedabad

Course Information :

This programme helps students explore key developments in film theory from the modern to postmodern period. The
emphasis is on the way in which film theory has developed from the 1970s to the present in response to social and
cultural change. Films are analysed from the viewpoint of different theoretical positions to demonstrate the relative
nature of criticism. Selected films by the European, American, Asian and Indian directors are studied. Students complete the degree with a knowledge and understanding of key developments in film theory, including a sense that theory
itself is ideological, and be able to recognize the role of the auteur in the creation of a work of art. The Institute
encourages aspiring students to be teaching assistants for other courses on the campus.

Year 1 :
Introduction to Hollywood & Art Cinema
Introduction to Film Theory
Asian Cinema
Bollywood Studies
Contemporary Hollywood Cinema
Television Culture
Postcolonialism and the Cinema
Film and the Body

Year 2 :
Art House Cinema & Film Festival Culture
Italian National Cinemas
Feminist Film and Television Theory
Commodity Culture
Genre Study
The Entertainment Experience
Film Noir: Style and History
Surrealism and the Cinema
City as Film
Love Stories: Film and Narrative Theory
Cinema Studies Thesis
Research Methods
Contemporary Film Theory
Computer Games:Interactive Spectatorship
Film Criticism and the Canon
Ethnographic and Documentary Cinema
Postmodernism and the Cinema
Melodrama, Class and the Cinema
Hitchcock, Film and Art
Dream Screen: Film and Psychoanalysis
Comedy, Cult and the Carnivalesque
Film, Modernity and the Avant-Garde

Coursework & Assessment :

The assessment criteria are of two phases. A formative system of assessment ensures that all the practical assignments, group discussions, seminars and written assignments in each subject are graded. The formal or summative written and practical assessment is done at the end of each semester.

Careers :

There is a range of careers open to post graduates in the field of education & criticism. The students pursuing this
programme will be equipped to be cinema and television critics. A film studies post graduate can seek employment
also as a film studies teacher.