SAAM Entrance Bulletin

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SAA – MA Entrance information bulletin by SFI - JNU Unit (syllabus, model papers & readings)
School of Arts and 4. An awareness of current debates

and new developments around art,
Aesthetics heritage, museums and exhibitions
is important, with an emphasis on
Jawaharlal Nehru University
the ability to critically engage with
Syllabus for entrance Examination issues and themes related to art.
Cinema Studies:
MA - Subject code and number: SAAM (235) 1. Broad knowledge of World Cinema,
Total seats: 29 (UR – 12, SC – 4, ST – 2 PWD – 2 Film Movements, and Film/Media
Practitioners.
OBC – 8 EWS – 3)
2. There should be awareness of cinema/
Note: Candidates attempting the entrance media’s status as an aesthetic practice,
exam of the integrated MA should have a broad a mass cultural form, and an instigator
sense of the areas listed under all the three of public debates.
streams of the School – Visual Studies, Cinema 3. Candidates should display their
Studies and Theatre and Performance Studies. knowledge of the public presence of
Questions set by the School typically ask cinema/media and the way certain film
questions that assess the candidate’s ability to practices get linked to political
reflect upon and critically engage with themes controversies, festival bans, censorship
and issues related to art. debates, and vandalism at exhibition
venues.
Visual Studies:
4. Some knowledge of the role of film
1. Broad knowledge of the history of criticism and writing about cinema in
world art in general, and of art in the popular press will be helpful.
South Asia, from Indus Valley Theatre and Performance Studies:
Civilization till the present, in
particular. 1. Broad knowledge of the history of
2. Candidates should have an theatre and dance including classical
understanding of formal, stylistic Greek theatre, Elizabethan theatre,
and iconographic aspects of South classical Indian theatre, music,
Asian art and be able to place them dance and performance cultures,
in their literary, cultural, historical, bhakti performance traditions in
religious and liturgical context. India, modern theatre and
3. In addition, a broad knowledge of contemporary performance
the history of Western Art, from the practices.
Renaissance to the present day, and 2. Some familiarity with dance in the
of the history of Asian art, including larger context of Indian dance
Far Eastern and Islamic art, are history, relationship of dance and
valuable. society.
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3. Likewise, an engagement with  Schechner,

musical traditions, both classical Richard. Performance
studies: An introduction.
and popular. Some awareness of Routledge, 2017.
basic concepts like rasa and  Schechner,
catharsis, the dynamics of body, Richard. Performance theory.
space and time in different Routledge, 2004.
theatrical and dance traditions, the  Benedetti, Jean. Stanislavski:
an introduction. Taylor &
role of the actor/performer and
Francis, 2004.
spectator.  Boal, Augusto. Theater of the
4. Basic knowledge of the theoretical Oppressed. Pluto press, 2000.
writings of Bharata, Bhatkhande,  Foster, Susan L.
Kapila Vatsyayan, Susan Foster, Corporealities. Dancing
Stanislavski, Brecht, Augusto Boal, Knowledge, Culture and
Power. New York: Routledge,
Badal Sircar. 1996.
5. An ability to see performances  Benjamin,
critically with an awareness of their Walter. Understanding Brecht
social and political contexts. (New Edition). Verso, 2003.
6. Emphasis on the capacity to  Perkins, Victor Francis. "Film
as Film; Understanding and
describe the performances of Judging Movies." (1972).
everyday life, including festivals,
rituals and ceremonies experienced  Hillenbrand, Robert. Islamic
at a local level within specific art and architecture. London:
regional contexts. Thames and Hudson, 1999.
*****************************  Thompson, Kristin, and David
Bordwell. Film history: An
Model Readings (*these suggestions are introduction. Vol. 205. New
York: McGraw-Hill, 2003.
not from the School side. Only, primary
 Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey,
books are to get basic understanding on ed. The Oxford history of
given topics. You can read any other similar world cinema. Oxford
readings. Along with, aspirant must have some University Press, 1996.
knowledge on contemporary trends and politics in  Jacobus, Lee A. The Bedford
cinema, art, theatre and performances studies) introduction to drama.
Bedford Books of St. Martin's
 Turner, Victor, Roger D. Press, 2008.
Abrahams, and Alfred  Staniszewski, Mary Anne. The
Harris. The ritual process: power of display: a history of
Structure and anti-structure. exhibition installations at the
Routledge, 2017. Museum of Modern Art.
 Turner, Victor, and Victor Cambridge, MA: Mit Press,
Witter Turner. The forest of 1998.
symbols: Aspects of Ndembu  Lewis, Jon. Hollywood V. Hard
ritual. Vol. 101. Cornell Core: How the struggle over
University Press, 1970. censorship created the
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modern film industry. NYU  Vatsyayan, Kapila. Bharata

Press, 2002. The Natyasastra. Sahitya
 Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey, Akademi, 1996.
ed. The Oxford history of  Vatsyayan, Kapila. Indian
world cinema. Oxford classical dance. Publications
University Press, 1996. Division Ministry of
 Parkinson, David. History of Information & Broadcasting,
film. London: Thames and 1974.
Hudson, 1995.  Sircar, Badal. "On Theatre."
 Brass, Paul R. The politics of (2009): 67-90.
India since independence. Vol.  Carrier, David. A world art
1. Cambridge University history and its objects. Penn
Press, 1994. State Press, 2008.
 GUHA‐THAKURTA, T. A. P. A.  Bharucha, Rustom. Theatre
T. I. "‘OUR GODS, THEIR and the World: Performance
MUSEUMS’: 1 THE and the Politics of Culture.
CONTRARY CAREERS OF Routledge, 2003.
INDIA'S ART OBJECTS." Art
 Mazumdar, Ranjani. Bombay
History 30.4 (2007): 628-657.
cinema: An archive of the city.
 Pollock Sheldon. A Rasa U of Minnesota Press, 2007.
reader: classical Indian
 Dutt, Bishnupriya, and
aesthetics. Columbia
Urmimala Sarkar
University Press, 2016.
Munsi. Engendering
 Biltereyst, Daniël, R. Vande performance: Indian women
Winkel, and Roel Vande performers in search of an
Winkel, eds. Silencing identity. SAGE Publications
cinema: film censorship India, 2010.
around the world. Springer,
2013.
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National Testing Agency
Question Paper Name: Arts and Aesthetics 29th May 2019 Shift 1 Set1
Subject Name: Arts & Aesthetics
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School of Arts and 4. An awareness of current debates

3. Likewise, an engagement with  Schechner,

modern film industry. NYU  Vatsyayan, Kapila. Bharata

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