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Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code	Course Name	Semester	Theoretical	Practical	Credit	ECTS
POL4442	Cinema and Politics	Spring	3	0	3	6

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Basic information

Language of instruction:	English
Type of course:	Non-Departmental Elective
Course Level:	Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery:	Hybrid
Course Coordinator :	Prof. Dr. EBRU ŞULE CANAN SOKULLU
Course Lecturer(s):	Assist. Prof. ARDA CAN KUMBARACIBAŞI
Recommended Optional Program Components:	None
Course Objectives:	This course analyzes the main tenets of crucial political events throughout the 20th and the 21st centuries and their representation in cinema. By looking into the connections between major political ideologies and milestone movies in cinema history, the course aims to provide students a better understanding of the events that transpired in recent history and their impacts within a critical framework. The course also makes use of theoretical works by known scholars in the field to deliver an in depth examination of a wide range of notions such as propaganda, war, activism, ethics, rights, role of media, social psychology, authority, ethnic conflict, terrorism, self-determination, mass surveillance, immigration and other international dynamics.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
1. Examine the basic approaches to Film and Politics.
2. Grasp the key debates, concepts, approaches, theories and case studies that critique and explain the complex relationship between politics and cinema.
3. Compare films from around the world while looking into historical and contemporary cinema.
4. Analyze interactions between societies, governments and international actors.
5. Recognize the role of different social and political actors (e.g. states, civil society actors, international organizations, supranational structures) in local, national and global contexts.
6. Discuss processes of state development, democratization, inequality, mobilization and global networks.
7. Explore the wider relationship between politics and entertainment, examines cinema’s response to political and social transformations and questions the extent to which filmmaking, itself, is a political act.
8. Develop critical thinking skills.

Course Content

Impact of Film; Propaganda; War and Cinema (Second World War, the Cold War, Vietnam War); Conflict; Fascism; Holocaust; Totalitarianism; Authoritarianism; Political Activism; Socialism; Communism; Neo-Marxism; Cuban Revolution; Nationalism and Self-Determination; Ethics; Rights; Citizenship; Minorities; Ethnicity; Immigration; Feminism and Gender Politics; Role of Media; Terrorism; Globalism.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	Introduction	Yannis Tzioumakis, Claire Molloy - The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Politics. Andrew Heywood - Political Ideologies.
2)	Film and Propaganda	Richard Schickel - Charlie Chaplin: A Life in Film. Alexander J. DeGrand - Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. J. S. McClelland - A History of Western Political Thought Neil Pagesm Mary Rhiel, Ingeborg Majer-O'Sickey - Riefenstahl Screened. Jonathan Auerbach, Russ Castronovo - The Oxford Handbook of Propaganda Studies.
3)	Totalitarianism and the Second World War	Hannah Arendt - Banality of Evil. Primo Levi - The Gray Zone.
4)	The Cold War Era	Bernard Schaefer - The Lives of Others: East Germany Revisited. John O Koehler - Stasi.
5)	Political Activism I (Socialism)	G. S. Prentzas - The Cuban Revolution Jon Lee Anderson - Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life Peter McLaren - Che Guevara Paulo Drinot - Che's Travels
6)	Political Activism II (Anarchism)	Robert Sklar - The Baader Meinhof Complex Julian Preece - Baader-Meinhof and the Novel Steve Giles, Maike Oergel - Counter-Cultures in Germany and Central Europe Christina Gerhardt - The Baader Meinhof Complex Chang Hyun Cho - Der Baader Meinhof Komplex
7)	Midterm Exam
8)	Political Activism III (Nationalism)	Henry Veltmeyer - Imperialism, Crisis and Class Struggle A.P. Thornton - Imperialism in the Twentieth Century John Galtung - A Structural Theory of Imperialism
9)	War and Cinema I	Bonnie L. Green, et. al. - Trauma Interventions in War and Peace Kenneth Payne - The Psychology of Modern Conflict Martin J. Medhurst - Cold War Rhetoric, strategy, metaphor, and ideology
10)	War and Cinema II	Michael Taillard, Holly Giscoppa - Psychology and Modern Warfare: Idea Management in Conflict and Competition Patricia Keeton, Peter Scheckner - American War Cinema and Media since Vietnam Politics, Ideology, and Class Ronnie D. Lipschutz - After Authority: War, Peace, and Global Politics in the 21st Century
11)	Citizenship and Rights	Sarah Gamble - The Routledge Companion to Feminism and PostFeminism Estelle B. Freedman - Feminism, Sexuality, and Politics Margaret Walters - Feminism. A Very Short Introduction
12)	Politics and the Media	Michael Griffin - Media Images of War Cees J. Hamelink - Media between Warmongers and Peacemakers Rune Ottosen - Enemy Images and the Journalistic Process
13)	Terrorism	Erin Steuter and Deborah Wills - Dehumanizing the Enemy in post 9/11 Media Representations John Lewis Gaddis - A Grand Strategy of Transformation Johan Galtung - Cultural Violence
14)	Developing Nations and Problems of Democracy	Adam Jones - Genocide and Mass Killing Scott Straus - Wars Do End: Changing Patterns of Political Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:

Yannis Tzioumakis, Claire Molloy - The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Politics.
Andrew Heywood - Political Ideologies.
Richard Schickel - Charlie Chaplin: A Life in Film.
Alexander J. DeGrand - Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany.
J. S. McClelland - A History of Western Political Thought
Neil Pagesm Mary Rhiel, Ingeborg Majer-O'Sickey - Riefenstahl Screened.
Jonathan Auerbach, Russ Castronovo - The Oxford Handbook of Propaganda Studies.
Hannah Arendt - Banality of Evil.
Primo Levi - The Gray Zone.
Bernard Schaefer - The Lives of Others: East Germany Revisited.
John O Koehler - Stasi.
Robert Sklar - The Baader Meinhof Complex
Julian Preece - Baader-Meinhof and the Novel
Steve Giles, Maike Oergel - Counter-Cultures in Germany and Central Europe
Christina Gerhardt - The Baader Meinhof Complex
Chang Hyun Cho - Der Baader Meinhof Komplex
G. S. Prentzas - The Cuban Revolution
Jon Lee Anderson - Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
Peter McLaren - Che Guevara
Paulo Drinot - Che's Travels
Henry Veltmeyer - Imperialism, Crisis and Class Struggle
A.P. Thornton - Imperialism in the Twentieth Century
John Galtung - A Structural Theory of Imperialism
Bonnie L. Green, et. al. - Trauma Interventions in War and Peace
Kenneth Payne - The Psychology of Modern Conflict
Martin J. Medhurst - Cold War Rhetoric, strategy, metaphor, and ideology
Michael Taillard, Holly Giscoppa - Psychology and Modern Warfare: Idea Management in Conflict and Competition
Patricia Keeton, Peter Scheckner - American War Cinema and Media since Vietnam Politics, Ideology, and Class
Ronnie D. Lipschutz - After Authority: War, Peace, and Global Politics in the 21st Century
Sarah Gamble - The Routledge Companion to Feminism and PostFeminism
Estelle B. Freedman - Feminism, Sexuality, and Politics
Margaret Walters - Feminism. A Very Short Introduction
Michael Griffin - Media Images of War
Cees J. Hamelink - Media between Warmongers and Peacemakers
Rune Ottosen - Enemy Images and the Journalistic Process
Stuart J. Kaufman - Ethnic Conflict
Adam Jones - Genocide and Mass Killing
Scott Straus - Wars Do End: Changing Patterns of Political Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa
Erin Steuter and Deborah Wills - Dehumanizing the Enemy in post 9/11 Media Representations
John Lewis Gaddis - A Grand Strategy of Transformation
Johan Galtung - Cultural Violence

References:

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Evaluation System

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

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities	Number of Activities	Workload
Course Hours	13	39
Study Hours Out of Class	13	107
Midterms	1	2
Final	1	2
Total Workload		150

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)	To be able to apply theoretical concepts related to mass communication, consumer behavior, psychology, persuasion,sociology, marketing, and other related fields to understand how advertising and brand communication works in a free-market economy.	2
2)	To be able to critically discuss and interpret theories, concepts, methods, tools and ideas in the field of advertising.	2
3)	To be able to research, create, design, write, and present an advertising campaign and brand strategies of their own creation and compete for an account as they would at an advertising agency.	2
4)	To be able to analyze primary and secondary research data for a variety of products and services.	2
5)	To be able to develop an understanding of the history of advertising as it relates to the emergence of mass media outlets and the importance of advertising in the marketplace.	2
6)	To be able to follow developments, techniques, methods, as well as research in advertising field; and to be able to communicate with international colleagues in a foreign language. (“European Language Portfolio Global Scale”, Level B1)	2
7)	To be able to take responsibility in an individual capacity or as a team in generating solutions to unexpected problems that arise during implementation process in the Advertising field.	3
8)	To be able to understand how advertising works in a global economy, taking into account cultural, societal, political, and economic differences that exist across countries and cultures.	2
9)	To be able to approach the dynamics of the field with an integrated perspective, with creative and critical thinking, develop original and creative strategies.	2
10)	To be able to to create strategic advertisements for print, broadcast, online and other media, as well as how to integrate a campaign idea across several media categories in a culturally diverse marketplace.	2
11)	To be able to use computer software required by the discipline and to possess advanced-level computing and IT skills. (“European Computer Driving Licence”, Advanced Level)	2
12)	To be able to identify and meet the demands of learning requirements.	2
13)	To be able to develop an understanding and appreciation of the core ethical principles of the advertising profession.	2