FILM AND TELEVISION | |||||
Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 |
Course Code: | ACL2052 | ||||||||
Ders İsmi: | Introduction to Film Studies | ||||||||
Ders Yarıyılı: |
Spring Fall |
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Ders Kredileri: |
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Language of instruction: | English | ||||||||
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Ders İş Deneyimini Gerektiriyor mu?: | No | ||||||||
Type of course: | Non-Departmental Elective | ||||||||
Course Level: |
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Mode of Delivery: | Face to face | ||||||||
Course Coordinator : | Dr. Öğr. Üyesi ELİF BAŞ | ||||||||
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Course Objectives: | This course is a survey of the discipline of Film Studies, its methodologies, genres and histories. Through an examination of various cinematic forms, styles, and genres, roughly following a historical chronology, the course aims to develop the critical skills crucial to the discourse of Film Studies. |
Course Content: | Films and reading material related to history of cinema. |
The students who have succeeded in this course;
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Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
1) | Introduction to the course. Film terminology. | |
2) | Birth of the narrative form- D.W. Griffith – Birth of a Nation 1915 | Reading. |
3) | Soviet Silent Cinema and the Theory of Montage Eisenstein: Battleship Potemkin 1925 (scene: The Odessa Steps) | Reading. |
4) | German Cinema of the Weimar Period Robert Weine – Das Kabinet des Dr. Caligari 1920 | Reading. |
5) | Golden Age of Hollywood – Charlie Chaplin Modern Times 1936 | |
6) | Classical Hollywood Cinema – Casablanca 1942 | |
7) | A Major Figure of the Studio Era: Hitchcock Alfred Hitchcock – The Birds 1963/or Psycho | |
8) | Review and discussion. | |
9) | Italian neorealism - De Sica– The Bicycle Thieves 1948 | Reading. |
10) | La Dolce Vita - Federico Fellini | Reading. |
11) | 1970’s era of cynicism: A nervous romance Woody Allen – Annie Hall 1977 | |
12) | Midterm, 2nd essay. | |
13) | A German Horror: Das Experiment - Oliver Hirschbiegel 2001 | |
14) | Turkish cinema | |
15) | Final. | |
16) | Final. |
Course Notes / Textbooks: | History of Film / C. Ellis and Virginia Wright Wexman A History of Narrative Film / David A. Cook |
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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 |
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 | 4 |
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 | 1 |
4) | Having a good command of the language and the aesthetics of audio-visual moving images in the world and in Turkey | 1 |
5) | Being able to create a narrative that could be used in a fiction or a non-fiction audio-visual moving image product | 2 |
6) | Being able to write a script ready to be shot | 2 |
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 | 3 |
12) | Having ethical values and a sense of social responsibility | 5 |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Attendance | 16 | % 10 |
Presentation | 1 | % 15 |
Midterms | 2 | % 40 |
Final | 1 | % 35 |
Total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 65 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 35 | |
Total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Workload |
Course Hours | 16 | 48 |
Study Hours Out of Class | 10 | 50 |
Midterms | 2 | 40 |
Final | 1 | 20 |
Total Workload | 158 |