Film Studies

Mode of Delivery

Face to Face

Prerequisites and Co-Requisites

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

The course covers the follow-up of cinema movements and theoretical studies emerging in the field of cinema in world and Turkish cinema.

Weekly Schedule

1) Narrative in cinema: Development and characteristics of classical and modern cinema narrative.
2) Narrative in cinema: Development and characteristics of classical and modern cinema narrative.
3) Narrative in cinema: Development and characteristics of postmodern cinema narrative.
4) Narrative in cinema: Peter Wollen and counter-cinema.
5) Production and consumption forms in cinema: Popular and Independent cinema.
6) New approaches in cinema: Ecocinema theory.
7) New approaches in cinema: Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Slow Cinema
8) Midterm
9) New approaches in cinema: New Turkish Cinema and reality.
10) New approaches in cinema: Relationship between cinema and philosophy.
11) New approaches in cinema: Relationship between cinema and its sociology.
12) New approaches in cinema: Changing film language after the pandemic.
13) Student presentations 1
14) Student presentations 2
15) Student presentations 3
16) Final exam

Recommended or Required Reading

1- Oluk, A., Klasik Anlatı Sineması, İstanbul, 2013.
2- Gürkan, H. Karşı Sinema, Es, İstanbul, 2015.
3- Büyükdüvenci, S., Öztürk, S.R., Postmodernizm ve Sinema, Dipnot, 2014.
4- Aitken, I, Avrupa Sinema Kuramları: Eleştirel Analiz (Çev. Z. Atam, S. Akgül & B. Erzi). İstanbul, Doruk, 2015.
5- Kolker, R. P., Değişen Bakış: Çağdaş Uluslararası Sinema (Çev. E. Yılmaz). Ankara, De Ki, 2010.
6- Kolker, R. P., Film, Biçim ve Kültür (Çev. F. Ertınaz, A. Güney, Z. Özen, O. Şakır, B. Tokem, D. Tunalı & E. Yılmaz). Ankara, DeKi, 2011.
7- Kellner, D.,Ryan, M., Politik Kamera, Çağdaş Hollywood Sinemasının İdeolojisi ve Politikası, İstanbul, Ayrıntı, 1997.
8- Kovács, A. B., Modernizmi Seyretmek: Avrupa Sanat Sineması 1950-1980 (Çev. E. Yılmaz). Ankara, DeKi, 2016.
9- Stam, R., Sinema Teorisine Giriş (Çev. S. Salman & Ç. Asatekin). İstanbul, Ayrıntı, 2014.
10- Karadoğan, A., Modernist Estetik. Ankara: De Ki, 2018.
11- Suner, A., Hayalet Ev, Metis Yayıncılık, 2015.
12- Bülbül, A. E., Bak Yeşil Yeşil: Ekosı?nema Kuramı Üzerı?ne. sinecine: Sinema Araştırmaları Dergisi, 6(2), 7-25.
13- Oğuzcan, D . "Bağımsız Türk Sinemasında Derin Ekoloji Felsefesi: Koca Dünya (2016) Filmi Üzerine Bir İnceleme". SineFilozofi, 2016 , 164-182.
14- Özyazıcı, K., Nuri Bilge Ceylan ve Yavaş Sinema., sinecine: Sinema Araştırmaları Dergisi, 11(2), 193-225.
14- sinecine ve Sinefilozofi, Film Quarterly, Screen vb. sinema dergilerinin güncel sayıları.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1) Lecture
2) Question-Answer
3) Discussion
4) Self Study

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