| CINEMA AND MEDIA RESEARCH (ENGLISH, PHD) | |||||
| PhD | TR-NQF-HE: Level 8 | QF-EHEA: Third Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 8 | ||
| Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
| CMR6026 | Myths on Cinema, Popular Discourses and Technology | Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 12 |
| This catalog is for information purposes. Course status is determined by the relevant department at the beginning of semester. |
| Language of instruction: | English |
| Type of course: | Departmental Elective |
| Course Level: | |
| Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
| Course Coordinator : | Prof. Dr. OSMAN KAYA ÖZKARACALAR |
| Course Lecturer(s): |
Prof. Dr. OSMAN KAYA ÖZKARACALAR |
| Course Objectives: | The course aims to study the reflections of the popular discourses and myths on technology in cinema. |
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The students who have succeeded in this course; I. Understand the dynamics at work in the creation of popular discourses alongside technological developments II. Understand the concept of auteur in cinema III. Understand how the issue of the relation between technology and humanity/society is dealt in recent avantguard cinema IV. Become familiar with the basic current approaches to new communication technologies in post-modernist theory V. Gain the capability to critically evaluate post-modernist approaches to technology. |
| In the first part of the course, how each new technological innovation gives rise to popular discourses and myths will be studied following J. Sconce’s work on the issue. In the second part, the cinema of David Cronenberg will be covered as a case. |
| Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
| 1) | Introduction to the course | - |
| 2) | Mediums and media | reading |
| 3) | The voice from the void | reading |
| 4) | Alien ether | reading |
| 5) | Static and statis | reading |
| 6) | Simulation and psychosis | reading |
| 7) | Interim overview | - |
| 8) | Cinema of David Cronenberg -1 | reading and watching film |
| 9) | Cinema of David Cronenberg - 2 | reading and watching film |
| 10) | Cinema of David Cronenberg -3 | reading and film watching |
| 11) | Cinema of David Cronenberg -4 | reading and watching film |
| 12) | Cinema of David Cronenberg -5 | okuma ve film izleme |
| 13) | Cinema of David Cronenberg -6 | reading and watching film |
| 14) | Presentations | preparing the presentation |
| Course Notes / Textbooks: | Jeffrey Sconce, Haunted Media (Duke Univ. Press, 2000) William Beard, The Artist as Monster: The Cinema of David Cronenberg (Univ. of Toronto Press, 2006) |
| References: | Chris Rodley (ed.), Cronenberg on Cronenberg (Faber & Faber, 1994) |
| Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
| Attendance | 15 | % 10 |
| Presentation | 1 | % 45 |
| Final | 1 | % 45 |
| Total | % 100 | |
| PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 55 | |
| PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 45 | |
| Total | % 100 | |
| Activities | Number of Activities | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
| Course Hours | 15 | 3 | 45 |
| Study Hours Out of Class | 16 | 9 | 144 |
| Final | 1 | 11 | 11 |
| Total Workload | 200 | ||
| No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
| Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
| 1) | Have the qualified skills and abilities in production and analysis of academic knowledge and texts (including the conference papers, articles, essays, research projects etc) that would contribute to the national and international academic literature. | |
| 2) | Gain the knowledge and comprehension of the literature on specific research area defined within the fields of cinema, media and cultural studies. | |
| 3) | Have the knowledge about fundamental concepts and main school of thoughts within the fields of cinema, media and cultural stıdies. | |
| 4) | Gain required academic skills for the production of research projects and publications both in Turkish and in English. | |
| 5) | Gain the skills required for grounded analysis, description and interpretation of a subject within the cinema, media and cultural studies fields in conformance with the ethical values and rules. | |
| 6) | Have the academic consciousness and responsibility about the necessity of production of research with potentials of wide influence on literature and society, and with an original academic value. | |
| 7) | Have the analytical skills required for the contextualized interpretation of a phenomenon that is related to cinema, media, and culture along with its relation to the historical, social, political, economic and cultural components. | |
| 8) | Gain the knowledge and the research skills about qualitative and quantitative research. |