| Course Unit Title | Course Unit Code | Type of Course Unit | Level of Course Unit | Year of Study | Semester | ECTS Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| History and Cinema | TAR432 | Elective | Bachelor's degree | 4 | Spring | 4 |
Name of Lecturer(s)
Prof. Dr. İbrahim ŞİRİN
Associate Prof. Dr. Harun Mustafa TÖLE
Research Assistant Dr. Sinan VARDAR
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
1) The student learns the place and importance of motion pictures and their directors in the history of culture and acquires the knowledge that all these factors should be taken into consideration when analyzing the cultural structure of a particular period.
2) Gains the ability to analyze the social, economic, political and cultural connections between cinema and history and to evaluate the relationship between cinema and history from a holistic perspective
3) Learns the periods of cinema history and the art of editing, sound, image, acting and script specific to these periods.
4) Learns to see the reflections of political, military and economic events in a certain period on the history of cinema and to make a cultural history reading through films.
5) Learns to analyze the connections of the fictional atmospheres of historical films in cinematographic time and space with the objective present.
6) Learns the interpretations, evaluations and criticisms of cinema theorists and directors towards history and historians towards cinema.
7) Learns to analyze the formal and theoretical infrastructure of the films shot before the introduction of sound in cinema.
8) Learns the general tendencies of the cinema industry towards the transfer of historical events to film and which industrial films are made in line with these tendencies and how they are made.
9) Learns the forms and methods in which certain historical heroes or events are adapted to film in national cinemas.
10) Learns how cinema has changed and transformed throughout the historical process depending on which motives.
Program Competencies-Learning Outcomes Relation
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| Learning Outcomes | ||
| 1 | High | |
| 2 | High | |
| 3 | High | |
| 4 | High | |
| 5 | High | |
| 6 | High | |
| 7 | High | |
| 8 | High | |
| 9 | High | |
| 10 | High | |
Mode of Delivery
Face to Face
Prerequisites and Co-Requisites
None
Recommended Optional Programme Components
History of Thought II
Course Contents
This course includes movie which is important in researching culturel history
Weekly Schedule
1) Introduction to Relationship between History and Cinema2) The Cine-Historical Journey of a Concept: Intolerance (D. W. Griffith, 1915)
3) Cinematic Depiction of a National Hero: Napoleon (Abel Gance, 1927)
4) History and Politics in Soviet Cinema: Alexander Nevsky (Sergei Eisenstein, 1938)
5) The Use of History in Propaganda Films: Kolberg (Veit Harlan, 1945)
6) Life and Death on the Chessboard of Time: Det sjunde inseglet [The Seventh Seal] (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
7) History, Sword and Sandals: Ben-Hur (William Wyler, 1959)
8) African Colonialism and Cinema: La battaglia di Algeri [The Battle of Algiers] (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966)
9) Mid-term
10) Same War, Different Interpretations: Tora! Tora! Tora! (Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, Toshio Masuda, 1970)
11) Women, Migration and Love in 19th Century Anatolia: Gökçe Çiçek (Ömer Lütfü Akad, 1972)
12) From History to the Present, from the French Revolution to Solidarnosc: Danton (Andrzej Wajda, 1983)
13) History in Animated Cinema: Hotaru no Haka [Grave of the Fireflies] (Isao Takahata, 1988)
14) One Hundred Years of Carnival in "Europe's Powder Keg": Podzemlje [Underground] (Emir Kusturica, 1999)
15) History of Sheet Music: Bohemian Rhapsody (Bryan Singer, 2018)
16) Final exam
Recommended or Required Reading
1- Dominique Chansel, Beyaz Perdede Avrupa: Sinema ve Tarih Eğitimi, çev. Nurettin Elhüseyni İstanbul: Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları, 1990
2- Marc Ferro, Sinema ve Tarih, çev. Handan Demir, İstanbul: Ayrıntı Yayınları, 2017
3- Sergey M. Eisenstein, Film Duyumu, çev. Nijat Özön, İstanbul: Payel Yayınevi, 1984
4- Sergey M. Eisenstein, Film Biçimi, çev. Nijat Özön, İstanbul: Payel Yayınevi, 1985
5- Sergey M. Eisenstein, Sinema Sanatı, çev. Nilgün Şarman, İstanbul: Payel Yayınevi, 2018
6- Dino Iordonova, Balkan Sineması: Alevler İçinde Sinema, çev. Burcu Erdoğan, İstanbul: Agora Kitaplığı, 2013
7- Giorgio Bartellini, Emir Kusturica, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2014
8- Anna Lawton, The Red Screen: Politics, Society, Art in Soviet Cinema, Londra & New York: Routledge, 1992
9- Ingmar Bergman, Büyülü Fener, çev. Gökçin Taşkın, İstanbul: Agora Kitaplığı, 2007
10- Colin Odell, Michelle le Blanc, Stüdyo Ghibli: Hayao Miyazaki ve Isao Takahata Filmleri, çev. Barış Baysal, İstanbul: Kalkedon, 2011
11- Lewis Wallace, Ben-Hur, çev. Kolektif, İstanbul: Ak Kitabevi, 1960
12- Michael G. Cornelius, Of Muscles and Men: Essays on the Sword and Sandal Film, Jefferson: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2011
13- Anthony Slide (ed.), D. W. Griffith: Interviews, Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2012
14- David Mayer, Stagestruck Filmmaker: D. W. Griffith and The American Theatre, Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2009
15- Melvyn Stokes, D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation: A History of "The Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time", Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007
16- Mary-Elizabeth O'Brien, Nazi Cinema as Enchantment: The Politics of Entertainment in the Third Reich, Woodbridge: Camden House, 2004
17- Philip Kemp (ed.), Sinemanın Tüm Öyküsü, çev. Ertan Yılmaz, Nuray Ayhan Yılmaz, İstanbul: Hayalperest Yayınları, 2014
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1) Lecture
2) Question-Answer
3) Discussion
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Contribution of Midterm Examination to Course Grade |
40% |
|---|---|
Contribution of Final Examination to Course Grade |
60% |
Total |
100% |
Language of Instruction
Turkish
Work Placement(s)
Not Required