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AHVS332A - Bollywood and Popular Visual Culture in India, 1950s onwards

Description

Examines popular Indian visual culture through the media of photography and film. Against a backdrop of Indian classical, folk, modern and contemporary, rural and urban art histories, select Bollywood films from the 1950s to the present are examined in class lectures, film screenings and readings. Styles featured range from historical, social realist and nationalist to stylized, idealist and moral narratives.

Units

1.5

Hours: lecture-lab-tutorial

3-0-0

Formerly

HA 332A

Note(s)

  • Credit will be granted for only one of AHVS 332A, HA 332A, HA 337 (if taken in the same topic).

Course offered by

Department of Art History and Visual Studies

Course schedules

Summer timetable available: February 15. Fall and Spring timetables available: May 15.

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