Section Info: FMT-230BC-01

Course Title: Intermediate Courses in History and Theory: 'Bollywood: A Cinema of Interruptions'
Start Date: 01/28/2025 End Date: 05/13/2025
Term: Spring Semester 2025
Description: Indian popular cinema, known commonly as Bollywood, is usually understood to have weak storylines, interrupted by overblown spectacles and distracting dance numbers. The course explores the narrative structure of Bollywood as what scholar Lalitha Gopalan calls a "constellation of interruptions". We will learn to see Bollywood historically, as a cultural form that brings India's visual and performative traditions into a unique cinematic configuration. We will analyze a selection of feature films, read scholarly articles, participate in debates, write guided assignments, and pursue independent research papers in order to understand Bollywood's uniqueness in relation to world cinema.
Distribution(s): I - Humanities , MP - Multicultural Perspectives , TP - Topics Course
Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate     Credits:4.00    

Faculty         Phone         Email address        
Ajay Sinha   413-538-2473   asinha@mtholyoke.edu  

Meeting Dates         Method         Meeting days         Meeting times         Building name         Room     Frequency    
01/28/2025 - 05/13/2025   Lecture   Tuesday and Thursday   10:30AM - 11:45AM   TBA   TBA   Weekly

REGISTRATION DETAILS

Requisite Courses        
None                    

Comments        
Additional Comments        
Course Tags        
ASIAN0001   ASIAN: Asian Studies minor   This course has been approved to count towards the Asian Studies minor.  
SASIA0001   SASIA: South Asian Studies major   This course has been approved to count towards the South Asian Studies major.  
FMT0001   FMT-HS: History   This course has been approved to count towards the Film, Media, Theater major in the History area.  
FMT0004   FMT-CR: Critical Studies   This course has been approved to count towards the Film, Media, Theater major in the Critical Studies area.  

Cross-listed Sections        
ARTH-290BC-01 Bollywood Cinema  
FMT-230BC-01 Bollywood Cinema  

Course Availability
Section status: Waitlisted     Capacity: 28     Enrollment: 27     Available: 0     Waitlist: 7
Please note: The "Available" count will equal 0 in a Waitlisted course where spaces in the course have recently opened and students have not yet been moved into them from the waitlist.

BOOK INFORMATION

Book List         Required         Publisher Full Price        
To be determined.                    

Additional Book Comments        
This is NOT the complete book list for this class.