The School of Thinking and Feeling
The Class of Love
2010-11
Watch and analyze 10 films crossing different time periods with the theme of love, break down connections and disconnections, common themes that relate to economic, sociological, psychological and political themes and historical significant factors that may influence themes. Based on data, using themes, create outline for movie for this decade.
Love and the Cinema - Bollywood Style
10-11-04
Love and the Cinema - Bollywood Style
Head of Class
Johanna Gunther
Resident of Love
Interns of Love
Simon
Feyzan
Linda
Egor
Theodora
Leonie
Judith
Matthias
Andrea
Erika
Michael
Corinna
Lisa-Christin
Madlen
Astrid
Severin
Ann-Kathrin
Jasmin
Janick
Sven
Pia
Jelena
Philipp
Lea
Torsten
Sonja
Sharing Love...
Love & Cinema – “Bollywood Love” - Jasmin
Introduction
It is always the same story: Girl meets boy. They fall for each other.There are a lot of difficulties. They fight, they cry, they win. Happy ending. In between, there are several dance and music scenes and and most likely someone died.
That is Bollywood.
But most important: everything in the storyline happens because of love. Love in Bollywood films is always the main topic and it is shown in a variety of colours, beautiful melodies, dances that make the whole body move and all kinds of emotions that a person can imagine. The “poor cousin” of Hollywood is loud, intensive,dramatic, mostly a little bit over the top and presented in the frame of the Indian culture and traditions.
Questions
How is love expressed in Bollywood movies?
(How does this image relates to the real Indian love-culture?)
The plan
1) Watch at least five Bollywood movies.
2) Literature
Booth, Gregory D.(2008)Behind the curtain. Making Music in
Mumbais .Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2008
Bose, Derek(2005): Bollywood unscensored. What you don’t
see on the screen and why. New Delhi: Rupa & Co.
Sutherland, Kathryn(2005): Jane Austen’s textual lives.
From Aeschylus to Bollywood. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press.
Torgovnik, Jonathan(2004): Bollywood dreams.An exploration
of the motion picture industry and its culture in India. Berlin:
Phaidon
3) Finally, interview with a girl who grew up in India (Prija Banu)
Visualisation
I would like to create a video that contains a mash up of different love scenes, songs, quotes and pictures of Bollywood movies. It is supposed to give an idea how love is presented in those films. As well I would like to mix up theses images with elements of the real-life Indian culture.The video is supposed to critically analyze the relation between reality and movie.