MA CINEMA AND TELEVISION

A course in Cinema and Television at the Master’s level is a professional step towards successful careers in Cinema and Television. The multiplicity of Television channels being a reality, a formal training in these areas will equip the students with adequate confidence and leadership to take up challenging careers. The syllabus that is envisaged for a course in Cinema and Television Fulfils the requirements. 

Cinema and Television are the most important sources through which present day man as a spectator finds fulfilment in Entertainment, Information, Education, and Adventure and in various other areas. And at a higher level, he attains an insight regarding artistic values. Cinema has a history of more than hundred years and Television about sixty. Both originated on different technological bases and therefore, for sometime there was aggressive antagonism between the two. However, further advancement forced inter-dependability between the two and in most of the areas there is a healthy synthesis of technologies. Most of the institutions undertaking training in Cinema and Television have clearly understood this fact and steer the courses in a composite manner. A hundred years of history of Cinema has laid down clarity in concepts, which are the strong motive forces for a detailed study. The inter-dependability in technologies and the amalgamation in the artistic
expressions in the fields of Cinema and Television have to be understood as a single entity. For study and training, one has to depend on practical that give quick results. Therefore, videography is the technical means through which all the essential academic requirements of the courses are fulfilled. Cinema remains the motive force at the conceptual level.