CINEMA AND MEDIA RESEARCH (ENGLISH, PHD) | |||||
PhD | TR-NQF-HE: Level 8 | QF-EHEA: Third Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 8 |
Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
CMR6026 | Myths on Cinema, Popular Discourses and Technology | Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 10 |
The course opens with the approval of the Department at the beginning of each semester |
Language of instruction: | En |
Type of course: | Departmental Elective |
Course Level: | |
Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
Course Coordinator : | Prof. Dr. OSMAN KAYA ÖZKARACALAR |
Course Lecturer(s): |
Prof. Dr. OSMAN KAYA ÖZKARACALAR |
Course Objectives: | The course aims to study the reflections of the popular discourses and myths on technology in cinema. |
The students who have succeeded in this course; I. Understand the dynamics at work in the creation of popular discourses alongside technological developments II. Understand the concept of auteur in cinema III. Understand how the issue of the relation between technology and humanity/society is dealt in recent avantguard cinema IV. Become familiar with the basic current approaches to new communication technologies in post-modernist theory V. Gain the capability to critically evaluate post-modernist approaches to technology. |
In the first part of the course, how each new technological innovation gives rise to popular discourses and myths will be studied following J. Sconce’s work on the issue. In the second part, the cinema of David Cronenberg will be covered as a case. |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation | |
1) | Introduction to the course | - | |
2) | Mediums and media | reading | |
3) | The voice from the void | reading | |
4) | Alien ether | reading | |
5) | Static and statis | reading | |
6) | Simulation and psychosis | reading | |
7) | Interim overview | - | |
8) | Cinema of David Cronenberg -1 | reading and watching film | |
9) | Cinema of David Cronenberg - 2 | reading and watching film | |
10) | Cinema of David Cronenberg -3 | reading and film watching | |
11) | Cinema of David Cronenberg -4 | reading and watching film | |
12) | Cinema of David Cronenberg -5 | okuma ve film izleme | |
13) | Cinema of David Cronenberg -6 | reading and watching film | |
14) | Presentations | preparing the presentation |
Course Notes: | Jeffrey Sconce, Haunted Media (Duke Univ. Press, 2000) William Beard, The Artist as Monster: The Cinema of David Cronenberg (Univ. of Toronto Press, 2006) |
References: | Chris Rodley (ed.), Cronenberg on Cronenberg (Faber & Faber, 1994) |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Attendance | 15 | % 10 |
Laboratory | % 0 | |
Application | % 0 | |
Field Work | % 0 | |
Special Course Internship (Work Placement) | % 0 | |
Quizzes | % 0 | |
Homework Assignments | % 0 | |
Presentation | 1 | % 45 |
Project | % 0 | |
Seminar | % 0 | |
Midterms | % 0 | |
Preliminary Jury | % 0 | |
Final | 1 | % 45 |
Paper Submission | % 0 | |
Jury | % 0 | |
Bütünleme | % 0 | |
Total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 55 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 45 | |
Total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
Course Hours | 15 | 3 | 45 |
Laboratory | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Application | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Special Course Internship (Work Placement) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Field Work | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Study Hours Out of Class | 16 | 9 | 144 |
Presentations / Seminar | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Project | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Homework Assignments | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Quizzes | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Preliminary Jury | 0 | ||
Midterms | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Paper Submission | 0 | ||
Jury | 0 | ||
Final | 1 | 11 | 11 |
Total Workload | 200 |
No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
1) | Kitle iletişim araçlarının iktidar yapıları, ekonomi ve ideoloji ile tarihsel ve kuramsal ilişkilerini dünya ve Türk film ve medya örnekleri üzerinden tanımlamak. Eleştirel, analitik ve argümantasyon becerilerinin geliştirilmesi ve akademik araştırma yoluyla medya okuryazarlıklarını göstermek üretim biçimleri (kurmaca, belgesel, deneysel ve/veya animasyon), film tarihi ve film teorisi, kitle iletişim teorileri ile ilgili temel terim ve kavramları, başlıca eğilim ve dönemleri tanımlamak ve açıklamak. |