Film Studies

History of Film, Mise-en-Scene, and Cinema Verite

Documentary Film, Andre Bazin ("The Ontology of the Photographic Image"), and Amy Villarejo ("The Language of Film")

Louis Lumiere (Early 10 Films), Charlie Chaplin (Modern Times), and Sergei Eisenstein (The Battleship Potemkin)

Satyajit Ray (Pather Panchali, and "Introduction" to Our Films, Their Films), Film Noir and German Expressionism

Italian Neorealism, French New Wave and Andrew Dix ("Film and Narrative")

Jean-Luc Godard (Breathless), Vittorio de Sica (Bicycle Thieves), and Richard Attenborough (Gandhi)

Samira Makhmalbaf (Blackboards), Dogme 95, and Queer Cinema

Third Cinema, Auteur Theory, Laura Mulvey ("Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema")

Deepa Mehta (Fire), and Mehboob Khan (Mother India)

Ritwik Ghatak (Nagarik), Cinematography, and Black Cinema

Montage, Film Soundscape

Jean-Louis Baudry (“Ideological Effects of the Basic Cinematographic Apparatus”), and Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai)

Adoor Gopalakrishnan (Elippathayam), and John Abraham (Amma Ariyan)

Writing Film Review, Hollywood, and Film and Music

Film Genres, David E. James (“Is There A Class in this Text: The Repression of Class in Film and Cultural Studies”)

Dr. Vellikkeel Raghavan is faculty in the Dept. of English and Comparative Literature, Central University of Kerala (CUK). He has been working as a regular faculty in various colleges under Panjab University and in CUK for the last 16 years. His academic engagements are interdisciplinary in nature, focusing on Literature, Theatre, Film, and Literary/Critical Theory. He is an alumnus of University of Calicut, Kannur University, Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) and Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. He was a UGC Postdoctoral Research Awardee who worked on 21st Century Indian Political Documentary Films. On areas of literature, culture and films, to his credit he has fifteen articles in international and national journals, a single authored book, four edited international journal volumes, and a few popular articles and reviews in current affairs magazines. He was awarded the Central European University Scholarship in 2016 for attending the course "Screened Memories". His English translations of Safdar Hashmi-JANAM’s Hindi plays, Halla Bol and Machine, are taught as text books in Central University of Kerala, Mahatma Gandhi University, and Marymount University, USA. He has been offering elective courses on Film Studies, and Documentary Film at the postgraduate level in Central University of Kerala. Vellikkeel Raghavan can work across Malayalam, English and Hindi languages. His academic visits abroad include Austria, Canada, Hungary, Slovakia and Germany. Currently he is the Coordinator of Centre for Cinema and Screen Studies (CC&SS), Central University of Kerala.