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Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code	Course Name	Semester	Theoretical	Practical	Credit	ECTS
POL4442	Cinema and Politics	Fall	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):	Dr. Öğr. Üyesi 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 critically interpret and discuss the theories, the concepts, the traditions, and the developments in the history of thought which are fundamental for the field of new media, journalism and communication.
2)	To be able to attain written, oral and visual knowledge about technical equipment and software used in the process of news and the content production in new media, and to be able to acquire effective abilities to use them on a professional level.
3)	To be able to get information about the institutional agents and generally about the sector operating in the field of new media, journalism and communication, and to be able to critically evaluate them.
4)	To be able to comprehend the reactions of the readers, the listeners, the audiences and the users to the changing roles of media environments, and to be able to provide and circulate an original contents for them and to predict future trends.
5)	To be able to apprehend the basic theories, the concepts and the thoughts related to neighbouring fields of new media and journalism in a critical manner.
6)	To be able to grasp global and technological changes in the field of communication, and the relations due to with their effects on the local agents.
7)	To be able to develop skills on gathering necessary data by using scientific methods, analyzing and circulating them in order to produce content.
8)	To be able to develop acquired knowledge, skills and competence upon social aims by being legally and ethically responsible for a lifetime, and to be able to use them in order to provide social benefit.
9)	To be able to operate collaborative projects with national/international colleagues in the field of new media, journalism and communication.
10)	To be able to improve skills on creating works in various formats and which are qualified to be published on the prestigious national and international channels.