COURSE UNIT TITLE

: INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN CINEMA AND HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ELECTIVE

Offered By

Film Design and Directing

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR EMRAH SUAT ONAT

Offered to

Film Design and Directing
Film Design and Directing

Course Objective

Hollywood cinema has influenced all world cinemas since its existence and created the film style called mainstream cinema. For this reason, it would not be wrong to state that the Hollywood-specific narrative style occupies the cinemas of all countries and determines the expectation and perception of the audience at the global level. The aim of this course is to examine in detail the history of Hollywood cinema, which affects all the cinemas of the country, and accordingly the mainstream cinema, and the genres of films that are brought to the fore from time to time and are never independent of the political and ideological context, in their relations with each other, and the main anti-mainstream cinema with the understanding of modernist cinema. It is to enable the student to understand the contradictions and conflicts more easily. For if Hollywood cinema is an influence, modernist cinema is a reaction to the patterns of conventional cinema. Therefore, in order to better understand reaction, students must first understand the effect well.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   to comprehend the major ideological respects of Hollywood cinema
2   to gain the ability to determine the historical relations between mainstream cinema genres and Hollywood cinema
3   to gain the ability to determine de socio-cultural, politics and ideological connections of the era that the Hollywood films represent
4   to comprehend the contradictions and conflicts between the conceptions of Hollywood and non-Hollywood cinema / mainstream and non-mainstream cinema
5   to comprehend the connections between, at least on a periodic basis, global history and US history.
6   to gain knowledge about the historical necesitties that creates modern cinema.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction and course requirements
2 United States before 1900's
3 First cinematic attempts in US
4 Edison and Kinetograph
5 Transitional Period (1907 - 1917)
6 Transition of American Cinema from New York to Hollywood
7 Hollywood and United States; 1920's: Studio System
8 Mid-Term Exam
9 Hollywood, 1920's: MPPDA and Codes of Self Regulation and Great Depression on Hollywood
10 Production Code (Hays Code) as a censorship law
11 Production Code Administration and 1930's
12 II. World War on Hollywood
13 Film Noir and 1940's
14 Red Scare, Black List and 1950's.

Recomended or Required Reading

To be announced.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Assist. Prof. Emrah Suat Onat (Ph.D)
emrahsuatonat@gmail.com

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 2 28
Preparation for midterm exam 1 15 15
Preparation for final exam 1 30 30
Final 1 20 20
Midterm 1 10 10
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 129

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