FILM AND TELEVISION
Bachelor	TR-NQF-HE: Level 6	QF-EHEA: First Cycle	EQF-LLL: Level 6

Ders Genel Tanıtım Bilgileri

Course Code:

FTV2949

Ders İsmi:

Popular Culture & Cinema

Ders Yarıyılı:

Fall
Spring

Ders Kredileri:

Theoretical	Practical	Credit	ECTS
3	0	3	5

Language of instruction:

English

Ders Koşulu:

Ders İş Deneyimini Gerektiriyor mu?:

Type of course:

Departmental Elective

Course Level:

Bachelor

TR-NQF-HE:6. Master`s Degree

QF-EHEA:First Cycle

EQF-LLL:6. Master`s Degree

Mode of Delivery:

Face to face

Course Coordinator :

Dr. Öğr. Üyesi DENİZ GÜRGEN

Course Lecturer(s):

Course Assistants:

Dersin Amaç ve İçeriği

Course Objectives:

The objective of this course is to discuss and identify cinema as a popular art form to entertain audiences worldwide in the context of media culture. The course aims to charactirize the significance of popular cinema through its association with the social dynamics of the society and its transformative power by addressing the theories of popular culture within the intertexual perspective of cultural studies.

Course Content:

In Popular Culture and Cinema course we'll discuss cinema as one of the most popular art forms to be involved in and shape the entertainment industry with recent examples from Hollywood and Cinema in Turkey. The concept of film genre will be analized with examples in national and international context. The examples of recent blockbuster productions in Hollywood and cinema in Turkey will be discussed in the context of feminist criticism and historiography.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;

Learning Outcomes

1 - Knowledge
Theoretical - Conceptual
2 - Skills
Cognitive - Practical
3 - Competences
Communication and Social Competence
Learning Competence
Field Specific Competence
Competence to Work Independently and Take Responsibility

Ders Akış Planı

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	Introduction
2)	Popular culture and Cinema
3)	Film Genres: Action, Melodram, Horror
4)	Hollywood Blockbuster in 2000's, Adaptations of Marvel & DC Comics
5)	Popular Cinema and Feminist Criticism
6)	Postfeminism and Recent Blockbuster film: The Strong Heroine.
7)	Midterm Presentations
8)	Historiography and Popular Cinema
9)	Historiography and Popular Cinema: Representation of World War II in Hollywood
10)	Popular Cinema in Turkey
11)	Representation of Early Republican Period in recent Cinema of Turkey
12)	"Out of the box" Integration of Independent cinema in Popular Culture
13)	Final Presentations
14)	Final Presentations & Review

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:

1. Kellner, D. 2003. Media Culture: Identity and Politics Between Modern and Postmodern. Routledge. London & New York
2. Elsaesser, T. 2001. “The Blockbuster: Everything Connects, But Not Everything Goes.” In The End of Cinema as We Know It, edited by J. Lewis, 11–22. New York: New York University Press.
3.Stuart, H., 1973. Encoding and Decoding in Television Discourse. UK. University of
Birmingham
4 .Gürgen Atalay, D. 2018. Historiography of World War II in Contemporary American
Cinema. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
4. Douglass Kellner and Michael Ryan Camera Politica: The politics and Ideology of Contemporary Hollywood Film (1988). 5. Mulvey, Laura (1975) ‘Visual pleasure and narrative cinema’, Screen, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 6–18.
6. Modleski, Tania (1991), Feminism without Women: Culture and Criticism in a ‘Postfeminist’ Age,
London: Routledge.

References:

Gürgen, D., 2016. Interpreting Chronotope as a Historiographical Tool in Elevator to the Gallows in Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and Arts, edt. Dinkgrafe, D. M., Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Hobsbawm, E., 2009. On History. London: Abacus.
Laine, T., 2013. Feeling Cinema: Emotional Dynamics in Film Studies. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing.

Ders - Program Öğrenme Kazanım İlişkisi

Ders Öğrenme Kazanımları
Program Outcomes
1) Being familiar to the main concepts and methods of the social sciences and the fine arts devoted to understanding the world and the society
2) Having comprehensive knowledge regarding different media and branches of art
3) Knowing the historical background of audio-visual moving images in the world and in Turkey and keeping pace with the new developments in the area
4) Having a good command of the language and the aesthetics of audio-visual moving images in the world and in Turkey
5) Being able to create a narrative that could be used in a fiction or a non-fiction audio-visual moving image product
6) Being able to write a script ready to be shot
7) Having the skills to produce the photoboard of a script in hand and to shoot the film using the camera, the lights and other necessary equipment
8) Being able to transfer the footage of a film to the digital medium, to edit and do other post-production operations
9) Being able to create a documentary audio visual moving image from the preliminary sketch stage to shooting, editing and post-production stages
10) Being able to produce an audio visual moving image for television and audio products for radio from preliminary stages through shooting and editing to the post-production stage
11) Being culturally and theoretically equipped to make sense of an audio-visual moving image, to approach it critically with regard to its language and narration and being able to express his/her approach in black and white
12) Having ethical values and a sense of social responsibility

Ders - Öğrenme Kazanımı İlişkisi

No Effect	1 Lowest	2 Low	3 Average	4 High	5 Highest

	Program Outcomes	Level of Contribution
1)	Being familiar to the main concepts and methods of the social sciences and the fine arts devoted to understanding the world and the society	3
2)	Having comprehensive knowledge regarding different media and branches of art	3
3)	Knowing the historical background of audio-visual moving images in the world and in Turkey and keeping pace with the new developments in the area	3
4)	Having a good command of the language and the aesthetics of audio-visual moving images in the world and in Turkey	3
5)	Being able to create a narrative that could be used in a fiction or a non-fiction audio-visual moving image product	3
6)	Being able to write a script ready to be shot	3
7)	Having the skills to produce the photoboard of a script in hand and to shoot the film using the camera, the lights and other necessary equipment	3
8)	Being able to transfer the footage of a film to the digital medium, to edit and do other post-production operations	4
9)	Being able to create a documentary audio visual moving image from the preliminary sketch stage to shooting, editing and post-production stages	4
10)	Being able to produce an audio visual moving image for television and audio products for radio from preliminary stages through shooting and editing to the post-production stage	4
11)	Being culturally and theoretically equipped to make sense of an audio-visual moving image, to approach it critically with regard to its language and narration and being able to express his/her approach in black and white	3
12)	Having ethical values and a sense of social responsibility	3

Öğrenme Etkinliği ve Öğretme Yöntemleri

Ölçme ve Değerlendirme Yöntemleri ve Kriterleri

Assessment & Grading

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Midterms	1	% 45
Final	1	% 55
Total		% 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 45
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK		% 55
Total		% 100

İş Yükü ve AKTS Kredisi Hesaplaması

Activities	Number of Activities	Duration (Hours)	Workload
Course Hours	13	3	39
Study Hours Out of Class	13	6	78
Presentations / Seminar	2	5	10
Midterms	1	4	4
Final	1	4	4
Total Workload			135