CINEMA AND MEDIA RESEARCH (ENGLISH, PHD)
PhD TR-NQF-HE: Level 8 QF-EHEA: Third Cycle EQF-LLL: Level 8

Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code Course Name Semester Theoretical Practical Credit ECTS
CMR6007 Cinema and Gender Fall 3 0 3 12
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: 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
Course Objectives: The course aims to critically re-evaulate feminist film theory based on Freudian psychoanalysis with novel feminist perspectives.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
I. Become familiar with Freudian and feminist approaches to horror cinema in film theory.
II. Gain the capability to analyse a genre film with conceptual tools of film theory
III. Understand the possible pleasures at work in film spectatorship
IV. Gain the capability to critically evaluate past and current approaches in film theory with respect to gender and gaze.

Course Content

The course entails a detailed reading of three seminal works on film theory and psychoanalysis, all of which take horror and exploitation genres as case studies and re-evaluate Freud on the basis of their analysis of the movies they study.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week Subject Related Preparation
1) Introduction to the course -
2) Castration anxiety: The Monstrous-Feminine -1 reading
3) Castration anxiety: The Monstrous-Feminine -2 reading
4) Castration anxiety: The Monstrous-Feminine -3 reading
5) Uncanny: Phallic Panic -1 reading
6) Uncanny: Phallic Panic -2 reading
7) Uncanny: Phallic Panic -3 reading
8) Avenging females: the rebellious nuns genre film izleme
9) Avenging females: the rape and revenge genre -1 film izleme
10) Avenging females: the rape and revenge genre -2 film izleme
11) Masochistic pleasures: Men, Women & Chainsaws: Gender in the Horror Film -1 reading
12) Masochistic pleasures: Men, Women & Chainsaws: Gender in the Horror Film -2 reading
13) Masochistic pleasures: Men, Women & Chainsaws: Gender in the Horror Film -3 reading
14) General overview -

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks: Barbara Creed, The Monstrous-Feminine (1993, Routledge)
Barbara Creed, Phallic Panic (2005, Melbourne Univ. Press)
References: Carol Glover, Men, Women & Chainsaws: Gender in the Horror Film (1993, Princeton U. Press)

Evaluation System

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

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities Number of Activities Duration (Hours) Workload
Course Hours 15 3 45
Study Hours Out of Class 16 9 144
Final 1 11 11
Total Workload 200

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) Have the qualified skills and abilities in production and analysis of academic knowledge and texts (including the conference papers, articles, essays, research projects etc) that would contribute to the national and international academic literature.
2) Gain the knowledge and comprehension of the literature on specific research area defined within the fields of cinema, media and cultural studies.
3) Have the knowledge about fundamental concepts and main school of thoughts within the fields of cinema, media and cultural stıdies.
4) Gain required academic skills for the production of research projects and publications both in Turkish and in English.
5) Gain the skills required for grounded analysis, description and interpretation of a subject within the cinema, media and cultural studies fields in conformance with the ethical values and rules.
6) Have the academic consciousness and responsibility about the necessity of production of research with potentials of wide influence on literature and society, and with an original academic value.
7) Have the analytical skills required for the contextualized interpretation of a phenomenon that is related to cinema, media, and culture along with its relation to the historical, social, political, economic and cultural components.
8) Gain the knowledge and the research skills about qualitative and quantitative research.