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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 |
POV3214 | History of Camera Images II | Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
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: | Non-Departmental Elective |
Course Level: | Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle) |
Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
Course Coordinator : | Dr. Öğr. Üyesi TOLGA HEPDİNÇLER |
Course Lecturer(s): |
Assoc. Prof. LEWIS KEIR JOHNSON Dr. Öğr. Üyesi TOLGA HEPDİNÇLER |
Recommended Optional Program Components: | None |
Course Objectives: | This course is a continuation of POV3213 History of Camera Images I. It will thus continue with the aim of providing you with histories of photography, film and video that can inform and enable your development as critical practitioners. |
The students who have succeeded in this course; I. Recognise varieties of explanation of shifts from modernist to postmodernist accounts of the significance of camera-images II. Recognise and analyse different modes of filmic narrative across factual and fictional modes and in relation to different socio-political and cultural interests III. Recognise different accounts of the emergence and purposes of video technologies IV. Recognise different accounts of the significance of digitization in photography, film and video V. Recognise different accounts of globalization and the roles of visual images in these accounts VI. Develop a critical account of relations to the history of camera-images and to contemporary visual culture relevant to the student’s practice |
The course will consider ways in which the technical powers of images have been used by contemporary practitioners. It explores the ways in which different photographic and film practices are involved in different claims to truth and knowledge in the context of our actual socio-cultural topics of interest. It reviews the transformation of photography and video practices, especially in the contemporary era. |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
1) | Introduction: review of History of Camera-Images I and issues of modernism and postmodernism in relation to camera-images | |
2) | Assignment I | Working on the assignments. |
3) | Post-war realities and fantasies in photographic work | Weekly readings will be assigned. |
4) | Post-war realities and fantasies in filmic work: Hollywood and counter-cinemas | Weekly readings will be assigned. |
5) | The emergence of video | Weekly readings will be assigned. |
6) | Assignment II | Working on the assignments. |
7) | Midterm; screening and discussion of filmic and video work in relation to uses of notion of postmodernism/the postmodern. | Weekly readings will be assigned. |
8) | Camera-images and varieties of the postmodern in photography, film and video | Weekly readings will be assigned. |
9) | Digitization in photography and photographic practices and genre | Weekly readings will be assigned. |
10) | Digitization in film and film and video practices and genres | Weekly readings will be assigned. |
11) | Globalization and transculture in camera-image practices | Weekly readings will be assigned. |
12) | Assignment III | Working on the assignments. |
13) | Current debates in photography, film and video | Weekly readings will be assigned. |
14) | Presentation and discussion of visual essay assignments and revision | Working on the presentations. |
Course Notes / Textbooks: | Mary Warner Marien, Photography: A Cultural History, 2nd edition, Laurence King, London, 2006; Ian Jeffrey, Revisions: An Alternative History of Photography, National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford, England, 1999; Geoffrey Batchen, Burning with Desire: The Conception of Photography, The MIT Press, 1999. |
References: | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History (Metropolitan Museum, NY): http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hi/te_index.asp?s=all&t=all&d=photographs&x=21&y=15 Victoria and Albert Museum, Photography: http://www.vam.ac.uk/page/p/photography/ |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Attendance | 1 | % 15 |
Homework Assignments | 2 | % 20 |
Midterms | 1 | % 25 |
Final | 1 | % 40 |
Total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 60 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 40 | |
Total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
Course Hours | 14 | 3 | 42 |
Study Hours Out of Class | 14 | 5 | 70 |
Homework Assignments | 2 | 5 | 10 |
Midterms | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Final | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Total Workload | 126 |
No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution |