| FILM AND TELEVISION (ENGLISH, THESIS) | |||||
| Master | TR-NQF-HE: Level 7 | QF-EHEA: Second Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 7 | ||
| Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
| FTV5006 | Science-Fiction, Technology and Society | Fall | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| 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 |
| Recommended Optional Program Components: | None |
| Course Objectives: | This course aims to study the cinema of science-fiction as a genre reflecting the social development with all its political and economic aspects, and contradictions. |
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The students who have succeeded in this course; I. Become familiar with the history and sub-genres of science-fiction cinema II. Understand the dynamics at work in the correlation between shifting trends in genre cinema and macro socio-cultural change III. Gain the capability to analyse a genre film with the conceptual tools of film theory IV. Understand the concept of auteur in cinema V. Understand how the issue of the relation between technology and humanity/society is dealt in recent avantguard cinema VI. Become familiar with the basic current approaches to new communication technologies in post-modernist theory VII. Gain the capability to critically evaluate post-modernist approaches to technology. |
| The main motifs, directions and twists of the mainstream science-fiction cinema will be one of the two main axis of this course. The cinema of David Cronenberg as an auteur will constitute the other main axis. In this axis, the discourse(s) on body-technology-existence in Cronenberg films will be discussed. |
| Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
| 1) | Introduction to the clourse | - |
| 2) | Brief history of science-fiction | reading |
| 3) | Overview of Sub-genres of science-fiction | reading |
| 4) | Fantastic voyages | reading and watching films |
| 5) | Mad scientists | reading and watching films |
| 6) | Anti-utopias | reading and watching films |
| 7) | Alien encounters | reading and watching films |
| 8) | Soviet sci-fi cinema | reading and watching films |
| 9) | Cinema of Cronenberg-1 | reading and watching films |
| 10) | Cinema of Cronenberg | reading and watching films |
| 11) | Cinema of Cronenberg-3 | reading and watching films |
| 12) | Cinema of Cronenberg-4 | reading and watching films |
| 13) | Popular narratives and pop theories | reading |
| 14) | Presentations | preparing presentation |
| Course Notes / Textbooks: | Cronenberg on Cronenberg, D. Cronenberg & C. Rodley. |
| References: | Haunted Media, J. Sconce. |
| 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 | 8 | 128 |
| Final | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Total Workload | 175 | ||
| 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 | |
| 2) | Having comprehensive knowledge regarding different media and branches of art | |
| 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. | |
| 4) | Having a good command of the language and the aesthetics of audio-visual moving images in the world and in Turkey | |
| 5) | Being able to create a narrative to 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, edit and do other postproduction operations | |
| 9) | Being able to create a documentary audio visual moving image from the preliminary sketch stage to shooting, editing and postproduction | |
| 10) | Being culturally equipped to make sense of an audio-visual moving image and to approach it critically with regard to its language and narration and being able to express his/her approach in black and white | |
| 11) | Having ethical values and a sense of social responsibility |