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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
FTV4931 Film Genres Fall 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 : Prof. Dr. OSMAN KAYA ÖZKARACALAR
Course Lecturer(s): Prof. Dr. OSMAN KAYA ÖZKARACALAR
Recommended Optional Program Components: None
Course Objectives: This course is directed towards the comprehension and evaluation of popular cinema and popular films within a historical and cultural context.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
1. Recognize the conception of popular cinema.
2. Identify the conception of genre.
3. Analyze the conflict between originality and genre.
4. Define different genres
5. Discuss the history of sci-fi genre
6. Analyze genre movies with a social perspective
7. Analyze genre movies with a historical perspective
8. Analyze genre movies with a political perspective
9. Evaluate the history of horror genre
10. Analyze genre movies with with an emphasis on genre issues
11. Analyze genre movies with an emphasis on desire.
12. Analyze genre movies with an emphasis on class issues.

Course Content

The course will start with the problems of definition of genre, with special emphasis given to specific iconographies of genres. Then, the course will deal with the issue of originality within the context of genre. Finally, case studies of two specific genres, science-fiction and horror, will be covered.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week Subject Related Preparation
1) Introduction to the class -
2) Problems of definition; iconography reading
3) Science-Fiction reading
4) Mad scientists – fantastic voyages reading - watching film
5) Alien invasions reading - watching film
6) Alien encounters reading - watching film
7) Dystopias reading - watching film
8) Horror reading
9) Monsters as Return of the Repressed reading - watching film
10) Battle of the genders reading - watching films
11) Onjects of desire reading - watching film
12) Horrors with political agenda reading - watching film
13) Other others reading- watching film
14) presentations presentation preparation

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:
References: 1.Michael Ryan and Douglas Kellner, Camera Politica: The Politics and Ideology of Contemporary Hollywood Film

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements Number of Activities Level of Contribution
Attendance 14 % 10
Presentation 1 % 45
Final 1 % 45
Total % 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK % 55
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK % 45
Total % 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities Number of Activities Duration (Hours) Workload
Course Hours 14 3 42
Study Hours Out of Class 14 5 70
Presentations / Seminar 1 6 6
Final 1 4 4
Total Workload 122

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