| Course Unit Title | Course Unit Code | Type of Course Unit | Level of Course Unit | Year of Study | Semester | ECTS Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| History of Cinema | RTS112 | Compulsory | Bachelor's degree | 1 | Spring | 5 |
Name of Lecturer(s)
Associate Prof. Dr. Mehmet ARSLANTEPE
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
1) Explain the developments leading to the discovery of cinema.
2) List who discovered cinema and the first moving images.
3) Correlate movies and socio-economic conditions.
4) Recognize how artistic development of cinema occured and who contributed.
5) Correlate the reflections of art movements in cinema and world history.
6) Evaluate cinema movements' directors and their important films.
Program Competencies-Learning Outcomes Relation
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| 1 | High | Middle | High | No relation | No relation | No relation | Low | No relation | High | High | No relation | No relation | No relation | High | High | |
| 2 | High | No relation | High | No relation | No relation | No relation | Middle | No relation | High | High | No relation | No relation | No relation | High | High | |
| 3 | High | High | High | No relation | No relation | No relation | Low | No relation | High | High | No relation | No relation | No relation | High | High | |
| 4 | High | Low | High | No relation | No relation | No relation | Low | No relation | High | High | No relation | No relation | No relation | High | High | |
| 5 | High | Low | High | No relation | No relation | No relation | Low | No relation | High | High | No relation | No relation | No relation | High | High | |
| 6 | High | No relation | High | No relation | No relation | No relation | Low | No relation | High | High | No relation | No relation | No relation | High | High | |
Mode of Delivery
e-course
Prerequisites and Co-Requisites
None
Recommended Optional Programme Components
None
Course Contents
Within the scope of this course, create moving images of the first device, beginning of the moving image, the industry's beginning, art direction developments in, currents in cinema will be examined.
Weekly Schedule
1) First devices that formed moving images.2) Beginning of the moving image: Edison, Lumière Brothers, G. Melies.
3) Beginning of the industry: Pathe, Gaumont and Edison productions.
4) Developments towards Art: E. Porter, D. W. Griffith.
5) Pioneer Soviet directors: Pudovkin, Vertov, Eisenstein
6) German Expressionist Cinema: Stellan Rye, Paul Wegener, Otto Rippert, Robert Wien, Fritz Lang, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, Paul Leni.
7) French avant-garde cinema: Germaine Dulac, Man Ray, René Clair
8) Midterm examination/Assessment
9) French Poetic Realism: Jean Vigo, Marcel Carne, Julien Duvivier, Marcel L'Herbier
10) Italian New Realism: Luchino Visconti, Roberto Rosselini, Vittorio De Sica
11) French New Wave Cinema: Claude Chabrol, Eric Rohmer, Alain Resnais, Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard
12) British Free Cinema: Lindsay Anderson, Tony Richardson, Karel Reisz
13) New Brazilian Cinema: Glauber Rocha, Ruy Guerra, Nelson Pereira Dos Santos
14) Experimental Cinema
15) Film examples.
16) Final examination
Recommended or Required Reading
1- Geoffrey Nowell Smith, Dünya Sinema Tarihi, İstanbul: Kabalcı Yayınevi, 2003.
2- C.W. Cream, Sinemanın Arkeolojisi, İstanbul: Agora Yayınları, 2007.
3- Rekin Teksoy, Sinema Tarihi, İstanbul: Oğlak Yayınevi, 2005.
4- James Monaco, Bir Film Nasıl Okunur, İstanbul: Oğlak Yayınevi, 2001.
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1) Lecture
2) Question-Answer
3) Discussion
4) Demonstration
5) Group Study
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Contribution of Midterm Examination to Course Grade |
20% |
|---|---|
Contribution of Final Examination to Course Grade |
80% |
Total |
100% |
Language of Instruction
Turkish
Work Placement(s)
Not Required