FTV4991 New Wave CinemasBahçeşehir UniversityDegree Programs ECONOMICS AND FINANCEGeneral Information For StudentsDiploma SupplementErasmus Policy StatementNational QualificationsBologna Commission
ECONOMICS AND FINANCE
Bachelor TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 QF-EHEA: First Cycle EQF-LLL: Level 6

Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code Course Name Semester Theoretical Practical Credit ECTS
FTV4991 New Wave Cinemas Spring 3 0 3 5
This catalog is for information purposes. Course status is determined by the relevant department at the beginning of semester.

Basic information

Language of instruction: English
Type of course: Non-Departmental Elective
Course Level: Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery: Face to face
Course Coordinator : Dr. Öğr. Üyesi GÖNÜL EDA ÖZGÜL
Course Lecturer(s): Dr. Öğr. Üyesi GÖNÜL EDA ÖZGÜL
Recommended Optional Program Components: None
Course Objectives: This course aims to evaluate the new wave cinemas that have developed after the 1950s with an intertextual perspective.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
i. gain knowledge about new wave cinemas in the world
ii. are able to make connections between the new waves in different countries and the historical, political and cultural context of the time
iii. are able to make creative discussions not just on cinema but alongside cinema
iv. learn to read films from different theoretical perspectives

Course Content

This course focuses on the socio-cultural, historical and ideological background of the new wave cinemas that have developed after the 1950's. The narrative form and content of the chosen films from each wave is analyzed from multiple theoretical perspectives.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week Subject Related Preparation
1) Introduction and Meeting
2) The Politics of New Wave: French New Wave Film: Jean-Luc Godard - Pierrot le Fou
3) Artistic Expression and New German Cinema Film: Wim Wenders - Paris Texas (1984)
4) British Free Cinema: Angry Young Men Film: Lindsay Anderson - If... (1968)
5) The Socialist State and the Czech New Wave Film: Jaromil Jires - The Joke (1969)
6) Garbage Aesthetics and Brazilian Cinema Novo Film: Glauber Rocha - Terra em Transe (1967)
7) Third Cinema Film: Fernando Solanas - Sur (1988)
8) Directors as Critics: Japanese New Wave Film: Nagisa Oshima - Night and Fog in Japan (1960)
9) memory and Desire: Chinese Fifth Generation Film: Tian Zhuangzhuang - The Blue Kite (1993)
10) The Poetry of Everyday Life: Iranian New Wave Film: Jafar Panahi - This is not a Film
11) Parallel Cinema: Indian New Wave Film: Satyajit Ray - The Apu Trilogy Pather Panchali (1955)
12) Realistic Tales of Life: Taiwanese New Wave Film: Tsai Ming-Liang- Rebels of the Neon God (1992)
13) Postmodernism and Cinema: New Hollywood Film: Woody Allen - Whatever Works (2009)
14) Memory and Belonging: New Cinema of Turkey Film: Nuri Bilge Ceylan - Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da Zeki Demirkubuz - Üçüncü Sayfa

Sources

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Evaluation System

Semester Requirements Number of Activities Level of Contribution
Attendance 10 % 10
Midterms 1 % 30
Final 1 % 40
Paper Submission 1 % 20
Total % 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK % 60
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK % 40
Total % 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities Number of Activities Duration (Hours) Workload
Course Hours 14 3 42
Study Hours Out of Class 14 3 42
Midterms 1 8 8
Paper Submission 1 10 10
Final 1 12 12
Total Workload 114

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

No Effect 1 Lowest 2 Low 3 Average 4 High 5 Highest
           
Program Outcomes Level of Contribution
1) Build up a body of knowledge in mathematics and statistics, to use them, to understand how the mechanism of economy –both at micro and macro levels – works. 3
2) Understand the common as well as distinctive characters of the markets, industries, market regulations and policies. 2
3) Develop an awareness of different approaches to the economic events and why and how those approaches have been formed through the Economic History and understand the differences among those approaches by noticing at what extent they could explain the economic events. 1
4) Analyze the interventions of politics to the economics and vice versa. 3
5) Apply the economic analysis to everyday economic problems and evaluate the policy proposals for those problems by comparing opposite approaches. 2
6) Understand current and new economic events and how the new approaches to the economics are formed and evaluating. 2
7) Develop the communicative skills in order to explain the specific economic issues/events written, spoken and graphical form. 3
8) Know how to formulate the economics problems and issues and define the solutions in a well-formed written form, which includes the hypothesis, literature, methodology and results / empirical evidence. 2
9) Demonstrate the quantitative and qualitative capabilities and provide evidence for the hypotheses and economic arguments. 2
10) Understand the information and changes related to the economy by using a foreign language and communicate with colleagues. 3