Course Language:
English
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Course Objectives:
This Special Topics course is designed for graduate students interested in developing and increasing their knowledge of a specific topic within the field of film studies. It will provide them with the opportunity to explore special areas of interest and contemporary debates related to cinema. Course topics may include the study of specific film genres, authors, film movements and styles, certain national cinemas, new technologies and film, film and media cultures, cultural studies and cinema, gender and cinema, film industry, film and philosophy, film and music, film sound, film adaptations, alternative film practices and other special topics.
Course Content:
The topics e.g., distribution system, censorship system, social realism, national cinema thesis.
Teaching Methods:
1: Lecture, 2: Presentation 3: Question-Answer, 3: Discussion
Assessment Methods:
A: Assignment B: Weekly Presentation
Vertical Tabs
Course Learning Outcomes
| Learning Outcomes | Program Qualifications | Teaching Methods | Assessment Methods |
| 1. Collect data and discuss special topics in Turkish cinema. | 1, 2 | 1,2,3,4 | A,B |
| 2. Analyze different types of narrative in concept of the specific conceptual framework in cinema. |
6, 3, 4 |
1,2,3,4 | A, B |
| 3. Improve different selected issues in master level and reach the original data in Turkish cinema. |
1, 2, |
1,2,3,4 | A, B |
| 4. Make scientific studies and present them in national and international congress and journals. |
1, 2,15 |
1,2,3,4 | A |
| 5. Analyze Turkish cinema with technical and content production conditions related to the socio economics structure of public. |
1, 2, 4, 6 |
1,2,3,4 | A,B |
Course Flow
| COURSE CONTENT | ||
| Week | Topics | Study Materials |
| 1 | The general overview to the cinema. | cinema history from the beginning. |
| 2 | Attempts to cinema periodization in Cinema. | Different periodization in cinema. |
| 3 | Film production industry. | Film production process and the problems of the industry. |
| 4 | Film distribution system. | Film distribution companies, majors. |
| 5 | National cinema thesis. | National cinema. |
| 6 | Social realism in cinema. | The birth of social realism in cinema, movies. |
| 7 | The censorship system. | The film censorship system historically. |
| 8 | Green cinema, white cinema. | What is green cinema and white cinema? |
| 9 | Student presentation | |
| 10 | Student presentation | |
| 11 | Student presentation | |
| 12 | Student presentation | |
| 13 | Student presentation | |
| 14 | Student presentation | |
| 15 | Student presentation | |
Recommended Sources
| RECOMMENDED SOURCES | |
| Textbook | |
| Additional Resources |
Nilgün Abisel. (1994). Türk Sineması Üzerine Yazılar. İmge Kitabevi.
Esra Biryıldız. (2002). Örneklerle Türk Film Eleştirisi. Beta Yayınevi. Nijat Özön. (1995). Karagözden Sinemaya. Kitle Yayıncılık. Oğuz Onaran, Nilgün Abisel, Levent Köker, Eser Köker. (1994) Türk Sinemasında Demokrasi Kavramının Gelişmesi. Kültür Bakanlığı. Kurtuluş Kayalı. (2006) Yönetmenler Çerçevesinde Türk Sineması. Deniz Yayıncılık. Şükran Esen. (2000) 80’ler Türkiyesi’nde Sinema. Beta Yayıncılık. Agah Özgüç vd. (2000) Türk Sinemasında Sansür. Kitle Yayıncılık. |
Material Sharing
| MATERIAL SHARING | |
| Documents | |
| Assignments | Selecting one of the topics in schedule and writing an article. |
| Exams | |
Assessment
| ASSESSMENT | ||
| IN-TERM STUDIES | NUMBER | PERCENTAGE |
| Assignment | 1 | 70 |
| Weekly presentation | 1 | 30 |
| Total | 100 | |
| CONTRIBUTION OF FINAL EXAMINATION TO OVERALL GRADE | 40 | |
| CONTRIBUTION OF IN-TERM STUDIES TO OVERALL GRADE | 60 | |
| Total | 100 | |
Course’s Contribution to Program
| COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM | ||||||
| No | Program Learning Outcomes | Contribution | ||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1 | To develop the scientific cognition, comprehensive knowledge of critical theories, concepts and scientific data collection methods and to be competent in discussion skills in the field of media and communication. | X | ||||
| 2 | To be able to define and analyze the historical development of mass communication in relation with its social and cultural results. | X | ||||
| 3 | To be able to relate the contemporary concepts like post-modernism, globalization, post-colonialism, post-structuralism to the tradition of critical thought which is constructed on mass media. | X | ||||
| 4 | To be able to analyze and discuss the economical, political and cultural facts and developments which are mediated by the forms of mass media, and their impacts on social life. | X | ||||
| 5 | To be able to define the interdisciplinary structure of cultural studies and to be able to interpret the mutual effects between the traditional scientific disciplines and communication studies. | X | ||||
| 6 | To be competent in the classical and modern aesthetic theories established in audio, visual and written history of art, and to be able to analyze and discuss the narrative types and styles under the light of these theories. | X | ||||
| 7 | To be able to critically evaluate how political actions and actors in social life use mass media and the way that they take place in them, in connection with their sociopolitical results. | X | ||||
| 8 | To be able to comprehend the national and international relationship of broadcasting policies and to be able to evaluate the social and cultural causes and effects accordingly. | X | ||||
| 9 | To be able to recognize the economical and cultural operations at the national and international levels, through the relations of media ownership, their channels and the media products, and to be able to connect and combine with the marketing techniques and items. | X | ||||
| 10 | To be able to connect the marketing techniques, devises and styles with media theories, and to be able to examine the practice methods. | X | ||||
| 11 | To be able to name the theoretical studies on national and international film history and culture, and to be able to recognize the major examples and to correlate them with theories. | X | ||||
| 12 | To be competent in the distinct writing formats of narrative styles of film and television, and to be able to apply them. | X | ||||
| 13 | To be able to recognize the technical structures and potentials of the mass media, and to be able to follow the technological developments and to apply them. | |||||
| 14 | To be able to scrutinize advanced aesthetic approaches and the visual effects with the national and international examples and to be able to apply them skillfully. | |||||
| 15 | To be able to combine the narrative genres, the aesthetic approaches, technical knowledge and the theoretical knowledge in media and communication with a creative design, and to become skillful at embodying it with a project. | |||||
ECTS
| ECTS ALLOCATED BASED ON STUDENT WORKLOAD BY THE COURSE DESCRIPTION | |||
| Activities | Quantity |
Duration (Hour) |
Total Workload (Hour) |
| Course Duration (Including the exam week: 16x Total course hours) | 16 | 3 | 48 |
| Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice) | 16 | 5 | 80 |
| Weekly presentation | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| Assignment (article) | 1 | 15 | 15 |
| Total Work Load | 146 | ||
| Total Work Load / 25 (h) | 6 | ||
| ECTS Credit of the Course | 6 | ||