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Media course with UNESCO model curriculum
[The Hindu]
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham has become one of the first universities in India to launch a media course in keeping with the spirit of UNESCO’s Model Curriculum for its undergraduate degree programme. UNESCO’s Model Curriculum, which was launched in June last year, has been designed by a select group of media scientists and practitioners drawn from across the world, including India.
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‘Alter technological development in favour of poor’
[The Hindu]
Mr. Katarey used sequences from films to point out social constructivism through the use of technology. “Thanks to talented documentary film makers who are into popularising alternative cinema and using alternative modes of distribution, cheaper and smaller video cameras are being put to good use.”
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A dangerously linear narrative
[The Hindu]
There was bound to be something predictable about the way media and political institutions in India reacted when a bomb-laden Cherokee tried driving into Glasgow this month. In popular imagination, the shock value implicit in such mindless acts tend to blur the distinctions between the shared identity of a community, and, a desperate fringe out to appropriate it by force.
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Where children speak
[The Hindu]
The nuances in the relationship between eight-year-old Mohammad and his grandmother, his sisters and the selfish father in Colour of Paradise (Iranian) moved every child in the audience to tears. "Such movies provide meaningful entertainment to children," said Rakesh S. Katarey, documentary filmmaker and professor at Amrita School of Journalism.
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Is reel real?
[The Hindu]
"Films, whether Western or Indian, have developed a deep-seated bias against single and career women. In reality, this is not the case," said Rakesh S. Katarey, documentary filmmaker and Associate Professor (Film & TV Theory), Amrita School of Journalism, at a day-long seminar-cum workshop on `Understanding Movies,' organised by Montage Institute of Filmmaking.
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Born into brothels
[The Hindu]
"The narrative is based on the observation style of story telling. The director makes you conscious of her presence and drives home the message that `what I'm seeing and saying are the same'," explains Rakesh. S. Katarey, associate professor and documentary filmmaker of Amrita School of Journalism. Caged birds are used as motifs to show the state of the lives of the children. So is the music that indicates the happy outside world (when they go on outing to click photographs) and their grim inside world.
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Picking out needles in a cyber haystack
[The Hindu]
Rakesh S. Katarey, Faculty In-charge, Amrita School of Journalism, Coimbatore, spoke to the search engine specialist (Dr. Eric A. Brewer) when he visited Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, last month.
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Lights, camera, action!
[The Hindu]
How to make documentaries popular? Asks Rakesh. S. Katarey, associate professor and documentary filmmaker from Amrita School of Journalism, and answers, " Documentaries reflect the concerns of the people but do not stick to a clear box office formula, so they are regarded unpopular. The term `popular' is now associated with materialistic success like box office collections, Television Rating Points and Newspaper Readership Survey," he says.
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Visuals of violence
[The Hindu]
“Now, it is reduced to physical violence. This trend is just an example of the impact of industrialisation on the art form,” says Rakesh S. Katarey of Amrita Institute of Mass Communication (Amrita School of Communication).
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Nostalgic bhavas of a great artist...Gopi on a trip down memory lane
[Instablog]
Performing on the same stage where he was initiated into the art of Kathakali after almost four decades, Kalamandalam Gopi seemed to be in a nostalgic mood while rendering the love-struck king of Nishadha in ‘Nalacharitam Onnam Divasam’.
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