FILM AND TELEVISION
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
FTV2914	Film Theory	Spring	3	0	3	5

Basic information

Language of instruction:	English
Type of course:	Must Course
Course Level:	Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
Course Coordinator :	Prof. Dr. NİLAY ULUSOY
Course Lecturer(s):	Prof. Dr. NİLAY ULUSOY
Recommended Optional Program Components:	None
Course Objectives:	From its earliest days, cinema has attracted unusually theorists and aestheticians inspired to write on cinema's nature, its prospects and its ideological entanglements. The goal of this course is to familiarize students with the major theoretical positions and debates that have arisen from this group of writers who engendered what has come to be called film theory.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
1. Will be able to define the general history of film theory
2. Will be able to provide an understanding of central debates about the moving image.
3. Will be able to provide the opportunity to reflect on different theoretical frameworks.
4. Will be able to practice using conceptual and theoretical language with precision.
5. Will be able to apply theoretical models, creating close textual analyses of specific film texts.
6. Will be able to locate the development of theoretical models in film within broader interdisciplinary contexts.

Course Content

Film theory course covers the history and critical framework of cinema from the 1890s to the present day. Students will be introduced to film theory and to a very broad range of American, European and world cinemas. Topics may include various national cinemas, transnational cinemas, classical and contemporary Hollywood cinema, genre studies.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	Introduction to the Course Syllabus Introductory Speeches What is the Moving Image?
2)	19th century: Invention of Photography and Cinema Cinema of attractions Invention of Narrativity-Griffith	Screen Viewing: Movies Began
3)	Looking at Film (Is Film An Art?) Rudolf Arnheim Formalists _Bela Balazs Bertol Brecht-Lucaks
4)	Realism Siegfried Kracauer Soviet Montage Theory	Screen Viewing: Dziga Vertov “Man with the Movie Camera”
5)	Auteur Theory Andre Bazin Godard: Avant garde &Brechtien	Screen viewing: J.L. Godard “Masculin Feminin: 15 faits précis
6)	Frankfurt School Walter Benjamin (The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction) Film Noir
7)	Semiotics- Sassure Metz	Screen Viewing: Steven Spielberg “Jaws I”
9)	Feminist Film Theory–Laura Mulvay (Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema) Representation Problem	Screen viewing Alice does'nt live here anymore
10)	Psychoanalysis Freud Lacan	Screen Viewing: David Lynch “Blue Velvet”
11)	Postmodernity in cinema	Screen viewing: Rob Reiner “Spinal Tap”
12)	PostStructuralism Jean Baudrillard Roland Barthes	Screen viewing Pillow Book
13)	Anlatı Dünyasına Giriş David Bordwell	Screen viewing The Truman Show
14)	Postcolonialism Return of the Repressed	Screen viewing My Beautiful Laundrette

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:
References:	1. Bordwell, David. Film Art an Introduction, McGraw Hill, 2003. 2. Stam, Robert. Film Theory An Introduction, Oxford, MA, Australia: Blackwell Publishing, 2005 (2. Ed.). 3. Cohen, M., Braudy L. (Ed.), Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings, N.Y., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Homework Assignments	2	% 10
Presentation	1	% 10
Midterms	1	% 40
Final	1	% 40
Total		% 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 60
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK		% 40
Total		% 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities	Number of Activities	Workload
Course Hours	14	42
Study Hours Out of Class	11	55
Homework Assignments	2	20
Midterms	1	4
Final	1	4
Total Workload		125

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)	Being familiar to the main concepts and methods of the social sciences and the fine arts devoted to understanding the world and the society	5
2)	Having comprehensive knowledge regarding different media and branches of art	5
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	2
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	2
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	2
8)	Being able to transfer the footage of a film to the digital medium, to edit and do other post-production operations	3
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	3
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