Course Information


Course Information
Course Title Code Semester L+U Hour Credits ECTS
MEDIA POLICY URTS346 6. Semester 2 + 0 2.0 4.0

Prerequisites None

Language of Instruction Turkish
Course Level Bachelor's Degree
Course Type Compulsory
Mode of delivery
Course Coordinator
Instructors Burcu SÜMER
Assistants
Goals The aim of the course is to introduce students to film theory and criticism and their relationships with both social sciences and humanities as well as art history. Students are informed about changes in film theory from early period to the present and thereby they develop reading and writing skills on film.
Course Content The course focuses on main theoretical approaches and methods which give direction to film criticism.
Learning Outcomes 1) Explain film criticism’s relation to history, culture and society.
2) Evaluates the similarities between modern art movements and cinema language.
3) Explain the link between modern forms of social power and the pleasures offered by cinema.
4) Understands the possibilities and limitations of realism and formalism in cinema.
5) Discusses the two founding elements of cinema the formal and ideological uses of gaze and sound.
6) Interprets the link between representations in cinema and imaginations of society.
7) Evaluates the film theory chronologically.

Weekly Topics (Content)
Week Topics Teaching and Learning Methods and Techniques Study Materials
1. Week Introduction to Film Theory and Criticism Lecture; Question Answer
Opinion Pool
Scenario Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
2. Week Cinema theory in early period I: What is cinema? Formalism, Surrealism and Realism. Lecture; Question Answer
Opinion Pool
Scenario Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
3. Week Cinema theory in early period II: Cinema and Realism Lecture; Question Answer
Opinion Pool
Scenario Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
4. Week Auteur Theory Lecture; Question Answer
Opinion Pool
Scenario Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
5. Week Mise en scene Analysis Lecture; Question Answer
Opinion Pool
Scenario Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
6. Week Saussurian influence and structualism Lecture; Question Answer
Opinion Pool
Scenario Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
7. Week Genre and Ideology Criticism Lecture; Question Answer
Opinion Pool
Project Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
8. Week Cinema and Psychoanalysis Lecture; Question Answer
Opinion Pool
Scenario Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
9. Week Poststructuralism and Deconstruction Lecture; Question Answer
Opinion Pool
Project Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
10. Week Ethnicity and Race Studies Lecture; Question Answer
Opinion Pool
Project Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
11. Week Feminist Criticism: Gender and cinema-1 Lecture
Opinion Pool
Scenario Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
12. Week Feminist Criticism:Gender and cinema-2 Lecture; Question Answer
Opinion Pool
Scenario Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
13. Week Example of film analysis: Different Theoretical Approaches and sample film. Discussion. Lecture; Question Answer
Opinion Pool
Project Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
14. Week General Evaluation Lecture; Question Answer
Opinion Pool
Project Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)

Sources Used in This Course
Recommended Sources
Abisel, Nilgün (1995). “Giriş”, Popüler Sinema ve Türler, İstanbul: Alan, s. 13- 67.
Armes, Roy (2011). Sinema ve Gerçeklik, çev: Zeynep Özen Barkot, İstanbul: Doruk, s. 17- 21, 31- 39, 76- 82.
Astruc, Alexandre (2010). “Yeni Avangardın Doğuşu: Kamera-Kalem”, Sanat Sineması Üzerine: Yaklaşımlar ve Tartışmalar, Ali Karadoğan (der.), Ankara: De Ki, s. 21-27.
Bazin, Andre (1995). “Fotoğraf Görüntüsünün Varlıkbilimi”, Çağdaş Sinemanın Sorunları, çev: Nijat Özön, İstanbul: Bilgi, s.30- 41.
Bordwell, David ve Thompson, Kristin (2009). “Çekim: Mizansen”, Film Sanatı, çev: Ertan Yılmaz ve Emrah Suat Onat, Ankara: De Ki, s. 112- 161.
Corrigan, Timothy (2013). Film Eleştirisi Elkitabı. Ankara: Dipnot.
Erdoğan, Nezih (1996). "Sinema ve Psikanaliz." Toplum ve Bilim 70: 241-250.
Fiske, John (2003). “Yapısalcılık Kuramı ve Uygulamaları”, İletişim Çalışmalarına Giriş, çev: Süleyman İrvan, Ankara: Bilim ve Sanat, s. 151- 173.
Gürata, Ahmet (2010). “Sinema ve Kuram”, Sinema: Tarih-Kuram-Eleştiri, Seçil Büker ve Y. Gürhan Topçu (der.), İstanbul: Kırmızı Kedi, s.60- 65.
Hall, Stuart (2017). “Başkasını Irksallaştırmak”, Temsil, Kültürel Temsiller ve Anlamlandırma Uygulamaları, çev: İ. Dündar, İstanbul: Pinhan, s. 292-331.
Henderson, Brian (2011). “Sinema Kuramlarının İki Türü”, Filmde Yöntem ve Eleştiri, der. ve çev: Ertan Yılmaz, Ankara: De Ki, s. 19- 33.
Mulvey, Laura (1997).“Görsel Haz ve Anlatı Sineması.” 25. Kare 5: 18-21.
Özarslan, Zeynep (2013). “Gerçekçi Film Kuramcıları”, Sinema Kuramları 1, İstanbul: Su, 151- 153.
Özarslan, Zeynep (2013). “İlk Film Kuramcıları”, Sinema Kuramları 1, İstanbul: Su, 13- 18.
Öztürk, Ruken (2000). “Feminist Film Politikası: Mürebbiye Örneği”, Kültür ve İletişim, 3 (1): 71- 97.
Ryan, Michael ve Douglas Kellner (1997). “Giriş”, Politik Kamera: Çağdaş Hollywood Sinemasının İdeolojisi ve Politikası, çev: E. Özsayar, İstanbul: Ayrıntı, s.17-42.
Sarris, Andrew (2010). “Auteur Kuramı Üzerine Notlar”, Sanat Sineması Üzerine: Yaklaşımlar ve Tartışmalar, Ali Karadoğan (der.), Ankara: De Ki, s. 41- 45.
Tudor, Andrew (2011). “Tür ve Eleştirel Yöntembilim”, Filmde Yöntem ve Eleştiri, Ertan Yılmaz (der.), Ankara: De Ki, s. 117- 125.
Wollen, Peter (1989). “Auteur Kuramı”, Sinemada Göstergeler ve Anlam, çev: Z.Aracagök, İstanbul: Metis, s. 68- 104.
Zavattini, Cesare (1968). “Yeni-Gerçekçilik Üzerine Görüşler”, Türk Dili, sayı: 196, s. 380- 384.

ECTS credits and course workload
Event Quantity Duration (Hour) Total Workload (Hour)
Course Duration (Total weeks*Hours per week) 14 4
Work Hour outside Classroom (Preparation, strengthening) 14 3
Midterm Exam 1 1
Time to prepare for Midterm Exam 1 5
Final Exam 1 1
Time to prepare for Final Exam 1 10
Total Workload
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