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 |
CMR6007 | Cinema and Gender | Fall Spring |
3 | 0 | 3 | 12 |
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 critically re-evaulate feminist film theory based on Freudian psychoanalysis with novel feminist perspectives. |
The students who have succeeded in this course; I. Become familiar with Freudian and feminist approaches to horror cinema in film theory. II. Gain the capability to analyse a genre film with conceptual tools of film theory III. Understand the possible pleasures at work in film spectatorship IV. Gain the capability to critically evaluate past and current approaches in film theory with respect to gender and gaze. |
The course entails a detailed reading of three seminal works on film theory and psychoanalysis, all of which take horror and exploitation genres as case studies and re-evaluate Freud on the basis of their analysis of the movies they study. |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation | |
1) | Introduction to the course | - | |
2) | Castration anxiety: The Monstrous-Feminine -1 | reading | |
3) | Castration anxiety: The Monstrous-Feminine -2 | reading | |
4) | Castration anxiety: The Monstrous-Feminine -3 | reading | |
5) | Uncanny: Phallic Panic -1 | reading | |
6) | Uncanny: Phallic Panic -2 | reading | |
7) | Uncanny: Phallic Panic -3 | reading | |
8) | Avenging females: the rebellious nuns genre | film izleme | |
9) | Avenging females: the rape and revenge genre -1 | film izleme | |
10) | Avenging females: the rape and revenge genre -2 | film izleme | |
11) | Masochistic pleasures: Men, Women & Chainsaws: Gender in the Horror Film -1 | reading | |
12) | Masochistic pleasures: Men, Women & Chainsaws: Gender in the Horror Film -2 | reading | |
13) | Masochistic pleasures: Men, Women & Chainsaws: Gender in the Horror Film -3 | reading | |
14) | General overview | - |
Course Notes: | Barbara Creed, The Monstrous-Feminine (1993, Routledge) Barbara Creed, Phallic Panic (2005, Melbourne Univ. Press) |
References: | Carol Glover, Men, Women & Chainsaws: Gender in the Horror Film (1993, Princeton U. Press) |
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) | 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. | |
2) | Gain the knowledge and comprehension of the literature on specific research area defined within the fields of cinema, media and cultural studies. | |
3) | Have the knowledge about fundamental concepts and main school of thoughts within the fields of cinema, media and cultural stıdies. | |
4) | Gain required academic skills for the production of research projects and publications both in Turkish and in English. | |
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. | |
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. | |
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. | |
8) | Gain the knowledge and the research skills about qualitative and quantitative research. |