Course Information


Course Information
Course Title Code Semester L+U Hour Credits ECTS
HISTORY OF CINEMA URTS269 3. Semester 2 + 0 2.0 3.0

Prerequisites None

Language of Instruction Turkish
Course Level Bachelor's Degree
Course Type Compulsory
Mode of delivery
Course Coordinator
Instructors Eren YÜKSEL
Assistants
Goals The aims of this course are to evaluate the developments in the period extending from the invention of the cinema to the 1960s within the context of countries, historical events and different cultural climates; to explain relationship between the film, industry, technology, audience and creativity; to describe differences emerging in filmic narratives in a critical perspective/approach.
Course Content In the light of a social, cultural and economic background, film production and existing film movements emerging in different countries are discussed in a historical process beginning from the invention of the cinema to the 1960s.
Learning Outcomes 1) Clarify the difference between film history and chronology.
2) Analyze film's relationship with the cultural, economic and social structure in which it is produced.
3) Analyze how current events are represented in the movie.
4) Explain how movies affect people's perspective towards the world.
5) Evaluate the historical evolution of the cinema.
6) Explain the new approaches and methods of cinema historiography within a critical point of view.
7) Evaluate specific aspects of national cinemas within the framework of relations to each other.
8) Explain how industrial and technological structure impacts the cinema.
9) Compare differences of national cinemas which have various narrative styles.

Weekly Topics (Content)
Week Topics Teaching and Learning Methods and Techniques Study Materials
1. Week Introduction Film: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Frank Capra, 1939) Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion; Demonstration
Opinion Pool
Problem Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
2. Week Invention of cinematographe, early silent era, silent comedies Film: City Lights, (Charlie Chaplin, 1931). Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion; Demonstration
Opinion Pool
Problem Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
3. Week Transition to sound cinema, Hollywood in the 1920s & 1930s: Economic Crisis, Studio System, “Hays’ Office”, Hays Code, New Deal. Film: Singin’ in the Rain (Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly,1952) Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion; Demonstration
Opinion Pool
Problem Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
4. Week European Cinema in the 1920s & 1940s I: Faschism and National Socialism, Reorganising of German and Italian cinema, British Cinema and documentary tradition Film: Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Robert Wiene, 1920). Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion; Demonstration
Opinion Pool
Problem Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
5. Week European Cinema in the 1920s & 1940s II: The Popular Front in France, “freedom” in films, “poetic realism” Film: Á nous la liberté (Freedom for Us, Rene Clair, 1931). Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion; Demonstration
Opinion Pool
Problem Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
6. Week Cinema in W W II Era: The situation of cinema in Germany and USSR. Film: Battleship of Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925). Lecture; Question Answer; Demonstration
Opinion Pool
Problem Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
7. Week Post-War Hollywood and the 1950s: Dissolving of studio system, cold war, McCarthy era, realist movements, tv and technical innovations. Film:On The Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954); Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray, 1955). Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion; Demonstration
Opinion Pool
Problem Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
8. Week Post-War Hollywood and the 1950s: Dissolving of studio system, cold war, McCarthy era, realist movements, tv and technical innovations.Film: Guilty by Suspicion (Irwin Winkler, 1991) Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion; Demonstration
Opinion Pool
Problem Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
9. Week Post-War European Cinema: "Art cinema" and "auteur" Film: Seventh Seal (Det Sjunde Inseglet, Ingmar Bergman, 1957). Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion; Demonstration
Opinion Pool
Problem Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
10. Week Italian Neo Realism: Post-War Italia and Italian Cinema Film:Roma Open City (Roma citta aperta, Roberto Rosellini, 1945). Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion; Demonstration
Opinion Pool
Problem Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
11. Week Italian Neo Realism: Post-War Italia and Italian Cinema Film: Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di Biciclette, Vittorio de Sica, 1946). Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion; Demonstration
Opinion Pool
Problem Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
12. Week French New Wave: Politics in the 1950s France, Algeria and Vietnam Wars, Black novel, cinematheque and Cahiers du Cinema, conditions of film production. Film: Hiroshima mon Amour (Alain Resnais, 1959); The 400 Blows (Les Quatre Cents Coups, François Truffaut, 1959). Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion; Demonstration
Opinion Pool
Problem Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
13. Week A modern auteur, a dissident in USSR: Tarkovsky. Film: The Mirror (Zerkalo, Andrey Tarkovsky, 1975). Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion; Demonstration
Opinion Pool
Problem Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
14. Week General Discussion Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming
Problem Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)

Sources Used in This Course
Recommended Sources
Abisel, Nigün (2007). Sessiz Sinema. Ankara: De Ki.
Bordwell, David ve Kristin Thompson (2008). Film Sanatı. Ankara: De Ki. 440-464.
Niş, Nilgün ve Tuğrul Eryılmaz (1981). “Sinemanın Çağdaşlaşması, Yenigerçekçilik, Yeni Dalga.” YILLIK, 145-178.
Nochimson, Martha P. (2012). Bir Dünya Sinema (Özgür Yaren, Çev.). Ankara De Ki.
Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey (Ed.) (2003). Dünya Sinema Tarihi. (Ahmet Fethi, Çev.). İstanbul: Kabalcı.
Öztürk, S. Ruken (1995). “Tarkovski ve Felsefe.” 25. Kare 13: 9-14.

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ECTS credits and course workload
Event Quantity Duration (Hour) Total Workload (Hour)
Course Duration (Total weeks*Hours per week) 16 4
Work Hour outside Classroom (Preparation, strengthening) 16 1
Midterm Exam 1 1
Time to prepare for Midterm Exam 1 18
Final Exam 1 1
Time to prepare for Final Exam 1 20
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