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Week |
Subject |
Related Preparation |
1) |
Inroduction |
Reading: WG Sebald, Rings of Saturn |
2) |
KEY CONCEPTS OF MEMORY |
Michael Rothberg, Multidirectional Memory
Marianne Hirsch, “The Generation of Post-Memory”
Susannah Radstone, “Working With Memory
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3) |
MEMORY AND VISUAL CUTURE |
David Harvey, “The Condition of Postmodernity”
Linda Hutcheon, “The Politics of Postmodernity”
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4) |
MODERNISM AND VISUAL MEMORY |
Walter Benjamin, “Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century" |
5) |
SITES OF MEMORY |
Marita Sturken, Tangled Memories
James Young, “Memory, Countermemory and the End of the Monument”
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6) |
IMAGE AND MEMORY |
Victor Burgin, In/Different Spaces: Place and Memory in Visual Culture. |
7) |
PHOTOGRAPHY AND MEMORY : Key Discussions |
Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida
Geoffrey Batchen, Forget Me Not: Photography & Remembrance
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8) |
PHOTOGRAPHY AND MEMORY: Documentary
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Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others |
9) |
FILM AND MEMORY: Key Debates |
Victor Burgin, Remembered Film
Annette Kuhn, Dreaming of Fred and Ginger: Cinema and Cultural Memory
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10) |
FILM AND MEMORY |
Screening: Derek Jarlman “Blue” and Discussion |
11) |
TRAUMA AND FORGETTING IN VISUAL CULTURE |
Marianne Hirsch, Family Frames
Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others
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12) |
NOSTALGIA AND IMAGE |
Svetlana Boym, The Future of Nostalgia |
13) |
RECONSTRUCTION OF MEMORY THROUGH CAMERA
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Barbie Zelizer, “The Voice of the Visual in Public Memory”
Marianne Hirsch, “Surviving Images” |
14) |
Final Paper Presentation |
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Course Notes: |
Victor Burgin, In/different Places: Place and Memory in Visual Culture
Frances Guerin and Roger Hallas, The Image and the Witness: Trauma, Memory and Visual Culture
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References: |
Walter Benjamin, “A Berlin Chronicle”, in Reflections, trans. By Edmund Jephcott
Homi Bhabha, The Location of Culture, routledge, 1994
Maurice Halbwachs, On Collective Memory, 1941, 1992.
Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities
Svetlana Boym, The Future of Nostalgia, 2001
Marianne Hirsch, Family Frames, Harvard University Press
Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida,
Gilles Deleuze, Cinema 1: The Movement-Image
Gilles Deleuze, Cinema 2: The Time-Image
Sontag, Susan, Regarding the Pain of Others
Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. Silencing the Past |
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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. |
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2) |
Gain the knowledge and comprehension of the literature on specific research area defined within the fields of cinema, media and cultural studies. |
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3) |
Have the knowledge about fundamental concepts and main school of thoughts within the fields of cinema, media and cultural stıdies. |
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4) |
Gain required academic skills for the production of research projects and publications both in Turkish and in English. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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.
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8) |
Gain the knowledge and the research skills about qualitative and quantitative research. |
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