Ways of Seeing Visual Media

Paper Code: 
WMS-422
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

 This course is designed to introduce ways of seeing Newspaper/ Cinema/TV to students so that they can read between the lines of public representation from funding to framework and perceive spaces of women in the scenario.

12.00

Representation and Media Technology; Introduction to Cinema, TV and newspapers as mediums: ways of seeing and visibility of women.

Early actresses including (memoirs/autobiographies) Nargis, Zohra Sehgal

 

 

12.00

Aspects of Film making: Sociology and The Political Economy of Cinema;

Selection of theme/story, treatment & music with respect to women in audience.

Industries supporting Cinema: like film magazines, and TV shows.

 

12.00

Women in Different Spaces:

Mythological: Jai Santoshi Ma,

Social Cinema: Bhabhi, Water

Muslim Social: Chaudavi ka Chaand, Nikah

Dalit representations: Aakrosh, Bandit Queen

NRI films from gender point of view – Gurindar Chadda’s Bride and Prejudice, Mira Nair’s Monsoon Wedding

 

12.00

Objectification of women:

# Advertisements as a form: an exercise by students on reading the Sunday Newspaper.

# Soap as a form, its transformations through the years changing faces of women in them.

 

12.00

Censorship and Women’s issues

Essential Readings: 
  1. Kosambi, Meera; ed. Women’s Oppression in the Public Gaze, RCWS, SNDT Women’s University, 1994
  2. Murthy,C.S.H.N.; Media Education in Third World, pp 266-281, Kanishka Publishers, Distributers, New Delhi, 2007
  3. Verma, N.K.; Media Ethics in Twentieth Century, Sumit Enterprizes, New Delhi, 2006
  4. Mazumdar, Ranjani; Bombay Cinema – Introduction pp xvii-xxxvii, Desiring Women pp79-109, Permanent Black, Ranikhet, 2007
  5. In Mary E John ed. Women’s Studies in India, A Reader, Penguin Books, 2008, Literature and Media, pp 583-627
  6. Johnson, Kirk, Television and Social Change in Rural India, Sage Publications, New Delhi 2000, pp 9-69, 190-248
  7. Gupta, V.S., ‘Women Empowerment- Role of Media, Beijing and Beyond’, in Communication Technology, Media Policy and National Development, Concept Publishing, New Delhi 1999 pp 164-173
  8. Joseph, Ammu and Sharma, Kalpana, Whose News? The Media and Women’s Issues, Sage 2006
  9. Sharma, Omprakash, Lahu kaa Ek Rang hai, Vividha Mahila Aalekhan evam Sandharbh Kendra, Jaipur, 2005 pp 95-112
  10. Jhunjhunwala, Bharat evam Madhu , Saamaajik Patrakaarita, Shri Nataraj Prakaashan, Dilli, 2005 pp 122-143 (mahila), 210-221(jansankhyaa)
Academic Session: 
2018-19
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