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Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 |
Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
ACL2052 | Introduction to Film Studies | Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
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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 : | Dr. Öğr. Üyesi ELİF BAŞ |
Course Lecturer(s): |
Dr. Öğr. Üyesi ELİF BAŞ Dr. Öğr. Üyesi HATİCE ÖVGÜ TÜZÜN |
Recommended Optional Program Components: | None |
Course Objectives: | This course is a survey of the discipline of Film Studies, its methodologies, genres and histories. Through an examination of various cinematic forms, styles, and genres, roughly following a historical chronology, the course aims to develop the critical skills crucial to the discourse of Film Studies. |
The students who have succeeded in this course; 1-Trace the historical developments of world cinema and identify the causes and effects of those developments. 2-Demonstrate how the individual histories of national cinemas have affected international trends in producing, distributing, and exhibiting films. 3-Describe how the uses of the film medium have changed and standardized over time. 4-Explain how sociopolitical, technological, economic, and cultural circumstances have influenced the aesthetics of cinema at given junctures in history. |
Films and reading material related to history of cinema. |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
1) | Introduction to the course. Film terminology. | |
2) | Birth of the narrative form- D.W. Griffith – Birth of a Nation 1915 | Reading. |
3) | Soviet Silent Cinema and the Theory of Montage Eisenstein: Battleship Potemkin 1925 (scene: The Odessa Steps) | Reading. |
4) | German Cinema of the Weimar Period Robert Weine – Das Kabinet des Dr. Caligari 1920 | Reading. |
5) | Golden Age of Hollywood – Charlie Chaplin Modern Times 1936 | |
6) | Classical Hollywood Cinema – Casablanca 1942 | |
7) | A Major Figure of the Studio Era: Hitchcock Alfred Hitchcock – The Birds 1963/or Psycho | |
8) | Review and discussion. | |
9) | Italian neorealism - De Sica– The Bicycle Thieves 1948 | Reading. |
10) | La Dolce Vita - Federico Fellini | Reading. |
11) | 1970’s era of cynicism: A nervous romance Woody Allen – Annie Hall 1977 | |
12) | Midterm, 2nd essay. | |
13) | A German Horror: Das Experiment - Oliver Hirschbiegel 2001 | |
14) | Turkish cinema | |
15) | Final. | |
16) | Final. |
Course Notes / Textbooks: | History of Film / C. Ellis and Virginia Wright Wexman A History of Narrative Film / David A. Cook |
References: |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Attendance | 16 | % 10 |
Presentation | 1 | % 15 |
Midterms | 2 | % 40 |
Final | 1 | % 35 |
Total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 65 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 35 | |
Total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Workload |
Course Hours | 16 | 48 |
Study Hours Out of Class | 10 | 50 |
Midterms | 2 | 40 |
Final | 1 | 20 |
Total Workload | 158 |
No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution |