Literature Courses
Literature Courses
Guidelines for Self-Placement in Language Courses
AALL 137 Contemporary Culture in South Asia
Khanna or Vaishnava
Contemporary cultures in South Asia and the global diaspora. Perspectives on cinema, television, and radio along with traditional literary media. Ways in which pasts are constructed by popular media to secure a relation to modernity. The themes and dilemmas which recur in various South Asian cultures and their diverse resolutions. The fiction of Mohan Rakesh, the poetry of Tagore and Kamala Das, the cinema of Satyajit Ray, Pakistani television dramas.
AALL 170 Indian Cinema
Satti Khanna
Sources of vitality in twentieth-century Indian cinema. The resilience of popular cinema in the face of Hollywood. Comparative study of varieties of melodrama. Narrative and non-narrative expressive forms of folk and high culture in South Asia. The work of Guru Dutt, Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, and Mani Kaul. A final research or performance project (film or video) required.