I delivered these lectures in Calcutta in the month of January 1999 to the teaching personnel of Roopkala Kendro.

This on-line course has been enriched on the basis of the interactions which took place during these lecturers. I therefore want to express my gratitude to the 11 trainees and to the personnel of Rupayan, especially to Mr. Subrata Mukherjee, M.D. of the West Bengal Film Development organization and to Mr. Sarkar.

Index:

• The Basic presuppositions of the Semantic Theory of Communication  (see also sutra 1)
• The Humanistic Approach (see also sutra 1)
• The unity of the artistic expression
• The aesthetic approach to language
• The steps of audio-visual production as "translations"
• Fundamental Principles of the Pragmatics of Human Communication
• The difference between informing and communicating
• The impossibility of not communicating
• The difference between the analogous and the digital symbols
• The punctualisation of the process of communication  
• The punctualisation of the process of communication
• The concept of meta-communication
• Meta-communication is based on reciprocity and on a hierarchy of levels
• Why what really matters cannot be said
• The authentic process of communication occurs when two persons are trying to develop a way of interacting out of which they will start thinking together
• Artistic enjoyment as an internal dialogue
• The three forms of human relationship
• Are audiovisuals more efficacious because the same communication is reinforced at different levels?
• If you really have an idea you have the means to express it.
• Why at times redundancy works?
• The two forms of persuasion
• The character of educational authority
• Example of the character of seduction
• Does public service advertising work on the same principles of advertisement for marketing of products?
• Maieutics: the specific method of education
• The limits of seduction
• The importance of redundancy also in the meta-communication level
• Indian and Western perspectives regarding power
• The relationship between "power" and "authority"
• Solidarity and competition
• Can we use these new media for education?
• The service to the community
• The varieties of social games: the zero-sum and the positive sum games
• Communication and types of relationships