COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CONTEMPORARY CINEMA INTERPRETATION II

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FBS 4102 CONTEMPORARY CINEMA INTERPRETATION II ELECTIVE 2 0 0 2

Offered By

Department of Film Design and Directing

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ZEHRA CERRAHOĞLU

Offered to

Course Objective

This course aims to teach the student, make them comprehend the problems of contemporary cinema based on the terms used to define our age such as democracy, freedom, individual, subject, identity, the other, modern, postmodern, existentialism, simulation, war, genocide, neo-colonialism, ideology, globalization etc. and starting from this point making analysis comparatively by watching sample films from modernist cinema, movement, category, directors and cinemas

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Learn and understand the problems of the age that he/she has been living in via cinema
2   leanr the different aesthetics of the films which discuss the contemporary problems
3   . Gain the knowledge and ability to identify his/her political, ideological, national, global, individual identity.
4   Have the ability to question himself/herself about where and when he/she must stand and what missions he/she could have as a graduate from a cinema school
5   Be able to evaluate the position of Turkish cinema among the other world cinemas
6   .Be able improve a critical point of view about Turkish and world cinemas.
7   Try to find out the ways how he/she can express his/her feelings and thoughts via cinematic language and find the questions and answers of what kind of a style he/she must shape.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 A lecture about Third Cinema.
2 Third Cinema manifests
3 Third Cinemas of countries and compared film analysis
4 Third Cinemas of countries and compared film analysis
5 Third Cinemas of countries and compared film analysis
6 Third Cinemas of countries and compared film analysis
7 Third Cinemas of countries and compared film analysis
8 Third Cinemas of countries and compared film analysis
9 Third Cinemas of countries and compared film analysis
10 Third Cinemas of countries and compared film analysis
11 Third Cinemas of countries and compared film analysis
12 Discussions of contemporary films
13 Midterm Exam
14 Discussions of contemporary films

Recomended or Required Reading

Üçüncü Sinema ve Üçüncü Dünya Sineması, Esra Biryıldız, Z. Çetin Erus, Es Publishing.
Politik Film (Üçüncü Sinema nın Diyalektiği), Mike Wayne
Iran Sineması, Hamid Dabaş, Agora Publishing.
Iran Sineması (in aspect of the historical development) Hahroskh Shirin Pour, Es Publishing
Latin Amerika Sineması, World Cinema Books, Kemal Sivaslıoğlu, Başka Yerler Publishing

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods


Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.10 + FIN * 0.60
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.10 + RST * 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Resources and monitor follow-up films are to be read to be evaluated
Rate discussion

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Must attend 70% of classes.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 2 28
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 1 14
Preparation for midterm exam 1 2 2
Preparation for final exam 1 3 3
Preparing assignments 1 10 10
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 61

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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