Course Information


Course Information
Course Title Code Semester L+U Hour Credits ECTS
CINEMA AND BORDERS 59015015 3 + 0 3.0 8.0

Prerequisites None

Language of Instruction Turkish
Course Level Graduate Degree
Course Type Elective
Mode of delivery
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Goals The goal of this course is to study the affects and reflections of migration in audio-visual cultural field, and to map out aspects of transnational cinema like migrant and exile films in the context of mobility, border crossing and fluidity in the history of cinema and audiovisual culture.
Course Content This course will analyze symbolic construction of Europe in the vast space of cinema and moving images from Lumière to YouTube clips and video-art installations. The focus of the course will be on spectatorship, community building and practices of orientation. It will seek to render Europe as a heterogeneous space including the perspectives of the Middle East, North Africa and Balkans. Using textual analysis and following public and academic debates, international co-productions, Eurimages, film festivals and biennales, will be examined as sample cases.
Learning Outcomes 1) Students can synthesize fields of Migrant Studies and Transnational Cinema in therms of theoretical framework and methodology
2) Students can design a multidisciplinary research in the fields of Migrant Studies and Transnational Cinema
3) Students can evaluate cultural outcomes of migration processes

Weekly Topics (Content)
Week Topics Teaching and Learning Methods and Techniques Study Materials
Postcolonial Connections / Funding Peripheral Film Production Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion

 Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
1. Week Introduction: Borders of Europe Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion

 Seminar
2. Week Transit Europe: Art, Culture and Geopolitics in the context of Migration and Borderlands Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion

 Homework
3. Week Cinematic Topographies in Silent Era Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion

 Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
4. Week Europe on Rails: Traveling Stars in Talkies Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion

 Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
5. Week Where Europe Begins: Documenting The Periphery Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion

 Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
6. Week New Forms of Spectatorship (Documentary Now/ Video Installations) Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion

 Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
7. Week Road Films: Migration, Mobility and Film Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion

 Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
8. Week Migrant Cinema: From Duty to Pleasure Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion

 Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
9. Week Diaspora and Exiles / Community Film Festivals Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion

 Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
10. Week Postcolonial Connections / Funding Peripheral Film Production Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion

 Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
11. Week Labor Migration: German/Turkish Cinema Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion

 Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
12. Week Borders and Thresholds Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion

 Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
13. Week Refugee Crisis and Audio-visual Imagery Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion

 Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
14. Week (Post)-Migrant Cinema Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion

 Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time)

Sources Used in This Course
Recommended Sources
Balibar, E., ‘Europe as Borderland’, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2009. Vol. 27:190 – 215.
Bergfelder, T., ‘National, transnational or supranational cinema? Rethinking European film studies’, Media, Culture & Society 2005. 27(3):315-331. 
Berghahn D. & Sternberg, C.,’Locating Migrant and Diasporic Cinema in Contemporary Europe’, European Cinema in Motion: Migrant and Diasporic Film in Contemporary Europe, Berghahn D. & Sternberg (ed.). Londra: Palgrave Macmillan. 2010. 12-49.

ECTS credits and course workload
Event Quantity Duration (Hour) Total Workload (Hour)
Course Duration (Total weeks*Hours per week) 14 3
Work Hour outside Classroom (Preparation, strengthening) 14 4
Homework 6 4
Presentation (Including Preparation Time) 8 2
Project (Including Preparation and presentation Time) 9 2
Report (Including Preparation and presentation Time) 1 2
Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.) 4 3
Practice (Teaching Practice, Music/Musical Instrument Practice , Statistics, Laboratory, Field Work, Clinic and Polyclinic Practice) 8 4
Seminar 8 4
Total Workload
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