This document provides an overview of why films should be studied. It discusses several key reasons for studying films, including that films are:
1) A dynamic medium that can rearrange time and motion to reveal social, historical, and other dimensions.
2) An art of audience stimulation, as described by Alfred Hitchcock.
3) A form of entertainment, pleasure, and a way for audiences to find identification and expression.
2. Cinema is a dynamic in nature
Its capacity to arrange and rearrange time and motion
Thus reveals its dimensions that are deeply social,
historical, industrial, technological, philosophical, political,
aesthetic, psychological, personal, and so forth.
Tenet Turnstile to Car Chase Real Time
WHY
STUDY
FILMS
3. A science of audience
stimulation-
Alfred Hitchcock
MISSION
STATEMENT
5. Film tells Stories
Films can bond
communities,
consolidate identities
and also, conversely,
divide people
Cinema of
attractions.
Tom Gunning
GOALS
6. Films have a clearly describe expressive
subject, Whether it is a real or fictional
persona whose explorations shape the film.
SELF
EXPRESSIVE
Aldous Huxley
7. Cinema as information. However, does not
restrict itself to the canonical documentaries
INFORMATIVE
10. INDIAN
CINEMA
3000 FILMS PRODUCED
ANNUALLY
15 REGIONAL FILM
INDUSTRIES
KEY MESSAGES
DISTRIBUTORS WORLDWIDE
DVD & Blu-ray sales
12,000
theaters
$3 BILLION REVENUE
box office
The Prasads IMAX is one
of the largest 3D IMAX
screens in the world.
KEY MESSAGES