Course Overview
Understanding contemporary trends in animation making in terms of content, styling, techniques and applications • Studying animation films through film viewing, appreciation, criticism, theoretical writings, essays , research studies • Aesthetics: Introduction to Aesthetics (Indian and Western) • Introduction to major art movements • Narrative: Introduction to narrative structures (Indian and Western) • Modes of Narrative • Narrative Discourse • Film Theory: Perception • Representation • Signification • Genres • Identification and Psychoanalysis • Interpretation.
| Total Credits | 4.0 |
| Type | Theory |
| Lecture | 1.0 |
| Tutorial | 2.0 |
| Half Semester | N |
| Text Reference | 302225 Dark Alchemy, The Films of Jan Svankmajer, Edited by Peter Hames, Greenwood Press 15 August, 1995302225 Disney302222s Aladdin 302226 The Making of an Animated Film, John Culhane, Hyperion, NY, 1994-10-06302225 The Illusion of Life- Essays on Animation, Edited by Alan Cholodenko, Power Publication in association with Australian Film Commission, SYD, 1991302225 Disney Discourse 302226 Producing the Magic Kingdom, Edited by Eric Smoodin, Routledge, London, 24 March, 1994302225 Eisnstein on Disney, Edited by Jay Leyda, Seagull Books, Calcutta, 1993302225 Animation 101, Ernest Pintoff, Michael Wiese Productions, CA, 1999 |
About Instructor

Prof. Nina Sabnani
