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St Aloysius College (Autonomous), MangaloreMS Communication, III Semester
Creative Communication
Course Plan 2010
Course instructor: Anil Pinto (ajpinto42@gmail.com)
Session I
Creativity and communication: Meaning and relationship; sources of creativity; media,literature, theatre, and other arts vis-a-vis creativity.
 Issues
What is creativity? When did we begin to discuss it? Wordsworth on poetic creation. Whatis Communication? Problems with Communication theories; idea of ‘novel’ in seventeenthand eighteenth centuries in EnglandReading/Texts:Plato: Ch 2, 10Sigmund Freud: ‘Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming’Wordsworth: ‘Daffodils’Ted Hughes: ‘Thought Fox’Michael Radford: Il Postino (1994)
Session II
Understanding literature: a historical overview and contemporary scene with reference toIndia and selected countries, literary genres, terms, theories and movements; language of literature.
 Issues
Genres in literature - poem, essay, short story, novel; understanding the terms literature,criticism, and theory; literature as discipline and domain – formation and contemporarytrends; criticism and theory - liberal humanist, formalism, structuralism, post-structuralism, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, feminism, post-colonialism, cultural studies,queer studies, ideology and discourse.Reading:Terry Eagleton: ‘What is literature?’William Wordsworth: ‘Daffodils’Raja Rao: ‘Introduction’ to
 Kanthapura
Shakespeare: ‘Tomorrow and Tomorrow’Albert Camus:
The Outsider 
Mary Klages: ‘Liberal humanism’, ‘Formalism’, ‘Structuralism’, ‘Post-structuralism’,‘Deconstruction’, ‘Psychoanalysis’, ‘Feminism’, ‘Post-colonialism’, ‘Cultural Studies’,‘Queer Studies’, ‘Ideology and Discourse’.
Un Chein Andalou
Session III
Basics of aesthetics: An introduction to all art forms- music, dance, painting, literature andtheatre; major theories and art movements; selected writings from major authors; visualculture and semiotics
 Issues
 
 Notions and traditions of music; harmony v melody; notions and traditions of dance; form;iconography; hermeneutics; ideology; semiotics; art semiotics; concept of the artist;notions of aesthetic; space and perspective; materials and techniques; colour and culture;genres in art.Reading/Texts:Ferdinand de Saussure: ‘Nature of Linguistic Sign’Roland Barthes: ‘Mythologies’, ‘The Death of the Author’, ‘Work to Text’Walter Benjamin: ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’Sussie Tharu and K Lalitha: Extract from ‘Introduction’ to
Women Writing in India from600 BC to the Present Vol I 
G V Iyer:
 Hamsageethe
(1975)Levi-Strauss:
Myth and Music
Session IV
Understanding theatre: meaning, historical background and contemporary scene withreference to India; production process- structure of play, role of the director, introductionto aesthetics of theatre-music, acting, architecture, scenic and costume design, lighting andmake up.
 Issues
Theatre semiotics; Aristotelian idea of theatre; Bharatha’s propositions on theatre; Theatreduring the colonial and post colonial period; comedy; tragedy; structure of plays, role of director; schools of acting; music; set design; costume; lighting; types of theatresReading:Aristotle:
On
 
 Poetics
Sophocles:
Oedipus Rex
Karnad:
 Naga-mandala
Levi-Strauss’s “Analysis of Oedipus Myth”Stuart Hall: “Encoding/Decoding”
Session V
Art and media: reporting and writing about art events and issues; supplements, magazinesand programmes, reviews and criticisms
 Issues
Old and new media interaction; aesthetic forms and politics of the Indian nation-state;exposure to types of reporting of art events; practical training in critiquing and reviewingart events and issues for newspapers, periodicals and journals.Reading:Raymond Williams: ‘Culture’Loius Althusser: ‘Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses’Peirre Bourdieu: ‘Distinction - A social Critique of the Judgement of Taste’
Pedagogy
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The prescribed films/texts must be seen/read before attending the classes.
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The classroom discussions will incorporate films, plays, poems, novel, theoreticalwritings, paintings, photographs and newspaper extracts
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There will be a few sessions conducted online, either through skype or dimdim.
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Classes will end with short essay-type assignment based on the readings anddiscussions of the day. They need to be submitted within the next three days.
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