BAHÇEŞEHİR UNIVERSITY BİLGİ PAKETİ / DERS KATALOĞU
| 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 |
| FTV4937 | Cinema and Media Culture | Fall | 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 : | 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 provide a sociological and critical perspective on media culture and to evaluate the socio-economical and cultural context that media products reproduce. |
Learning Outcomes
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The students who have succeeded in this course; At the end of the course, you will be able to: 1. Think critically; 2. Problematize concepts regarding media, society and culture; 3. Discuss the relationship between different media and culture; 4. Develop an understanding regarding the relationship between modernity and vision; 5. Explore how different regimes of visuality reproduce different understandings regarding reality, time, space and existence; 6. Discuss different forms of narration and the worldviews that they produce; 7. Use your theoretical knowledge in order to produce multi-layered works of art. |
Course Content
| This course will focus on media and cinema as both products and producers of culture and it aims to provide a sociological perspective on the relationship between media, culture and society. The course will focus on the relationship between media, narration and different ways of seeing. The relations between media/media products and the socio-political and cultural contexts will be considered in relation with topics such as modern scopic regimes, subjectivity, spatiality and temporality. |
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
| Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
| 1) | Meeting and Introduction | |
| 2) | Media Before Modernity | |
| 3) | Renaissance and the Ideology of Perspective | |
| 4) | Visual Culture and Modern Scopic Regime Politics of Seeing Centrality of the Eye | Films: Hi, Mom [Brian de Palma, 1970] Rear Window [Hitchcock, 1954] |
| 5) | The Enlightenment and Visuality | Readings: Italo Calvino - Invisible Cities Films: Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961) Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders, 1987) |
| 6) | Modernity and Media: Photography Industrial Revolution Positivism Liberalism Marx | Readings: Roland Barthes - Camera Lucida Walter Benjamin - "A Small History of Photography" in Benjamin, Walter (2015). On Photography Susan Sontag - On Photography John Berger - Understanding a Photograph |
| 7) | Modernity and Media: Cinema Mass Society Marxism, leninism, Fascism, Nationalism Freud Movement | |
| 8) | Midterm Project Presentations | |
| 9) | The Economy Politics of Media | |
| 10) | New Media and Culture: Selfie Media, Self, Identity Selfie and Renaissance self-portraits | |
| 11) | Self-Portrait Presentations | |
| 12) | Society of Spectacle/Surveillance/Simulacra | George Orwell - 1984 Haruki Murakami - 1Q84 |
| 13) | Different Regimes of Visuality | |
| 14) | Final Project and Paper Presentations |
Sources
| Course Notes / Textbooks: | Books: • Benjamin, Walter (2015). On Photography. London: Reaktion Books [https://bproxy.bahcesehir.edu.tr:4947/lib/bahcesehirebooks/detail.action?docID=4438926] * Barthes, Roland (1981). Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography. New York: Hill and Wang [TR 642 .B3713 1981] * Sontag, Susan (1977). On Photography. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux [TR 183 .S65 1977] * John Berger (2013). Understanding a Photograph. New York: Penguin Books [ TR187.B47 2013] * Calvino, Italo (1974). Invisible Cities. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich [PQ4809.A45 C35 1974] * DeLillo, Don (2009). White Noise. Penguin Books [PS 3554 .E447/W419 2002] * Orwell, George (2018). 1984. London: Vintage Books [PR 6029 .R8/N5 1990] * Murakami, Haruki (2012). 1Q84. London: Vintage Books [PL 856 .U673/A61219 2012] Diğer kaynaklar itslearning üzerinden duyurulacaktır. |
| References: | Books: • Benjamin, Walter (2015). On Photography. London: Reaktion Books [https://bproxy.bahcesehir.edu.tr:4947/lib/bahcesehirebooks/detail.action?docID=4438926] * Barthes, Roland (1981). Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography. New York: Hill and Wang [TR 642 .B3713 1981] * Sontag, Susan (1977). On Photography. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux [TR 183 .S65 1977] * John Berger (2013). Understanding a Photograph. New York: Penguin Books [ TR187.B47 2013] * Calvino, Italo (1974). Invisible Cities. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich [PQ4809.A45 C35 1974] * DeLillo, Don (2009). White Noise. Penguin Books [PS 3554 .E447/W419 2002] * Orwell, George (2018). 1984. London: Vintage Books [PR 6029 .R8/N5 1990] * Murakami, Haruki (2012). 1Q84. London: Vintage Books [PL 856 .U673/A61219 2012] The other sources will be announced via itslearning. |
Evaluation System
| Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
| Attendance | 14 | % 10 |
| Homework Assignments | 1 | % 15 |
| Presentation | 3 | % 15 |
| Project | 1 | % 20 |
| Final | 1 | % 40 |
| Total | % 100 | |
| PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 40 | |
| PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 60 | |
| Total | % 100 | |
ECTS / Workload Table
| Activities | Number of Activities | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
| Course Hours | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Study Hours Out of Class | 12 | 5 | 60 |
| Presentations / Seminar | 3 | 4 | 12 |
| Project | 1 | 4 | 4 |
| Homework Assignments | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| Final | 1 | 4 | 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 | 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 | |
| 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 | 5 |
| 12) | Having ethical values and a sense of social responsibility | 5 |