COURSE UNIT TITLE

: FILM GENRES AND PRACTICES I

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FSS 3317 FILM GENRES AND PRACTICES I ELECTIVE 2 2 0 4

Offered By

Film Design and Screenwriting

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR SABIRE SOYTOK

Offered to

Course Objective

Categories in Cinema I has been opened as a department of scenario writing and department optional lesson.
The aim of this course taken by department of scenario writing and department of cinema students is as follows:
The students are supposed to learn the categories which have a significant place in the global cinema that has born witness new forms as well as social and cultural factors of documentaries and films since the onset of cinema. In this course, we aim to examine historical and cultural developments of important categories and their formal and contextual features.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   . know the categories having an important place in cinema history, explain their evolution, know their features, and give examples
2   . explain historical and cultural developments of categories correlatively the art of cinema
3   know and distinguish the cinema aesthetic of categories, and explain this on sample films
4   correlate the categories, compare and comment on them
5   comprehend the place and importance of categories, distinguish them in accordance with their rising periods and comprehend it.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Information about general method of the course; literature information on cinema films and books 13. . Fantastic films
2 Formation of categories in cinema 14.Creating fantastic film atmosphere and scenario writing trial
3 Formation of categories in cinema 15.. Assessment
4 Formation of horror films and their historical development
5 Formation of horror films and their historical development film atmosphere and scenario writing trial
6 Comedy cinema and its place in cinema
7 Comedy cinema and its place in cinema
8 Historical development of Film Noir category
9 Historical development of Film Noir category film atmosphere and scenario writing trial
10 Science fiction films
11 Science fiction films atmosphere and scenario writing trial
12 . Fantastic films

Recomended or Required Reading

Sinemada Anlatı ve Türler
Popüler sinema ve türler Nilgün ağabeysel
Politik Kamera, D.Kellner
Bir Film Nasıl Okunur J.Monaco
Korku Sineması, Durmuş Akbulut
Asya Korku Sineması, A. Richard
Çağdaş Fantazya, Ü.Oskay
Bilimkurgu Sinemasında Şiddet ve Ideoloji Y.Batur
Sinema ve Müzik, I.Erdoğan
Kara filmler S.Tan Özdemir
Western ve Amerika, M.Gönen


Yardımcı Kaynaklar;
Sinema dergileri, filmler, müzikler,

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

The lessons will be realized as active participation and seminar studies; they will be instructed by the most important sample films of the world s cinema.

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 * 0.20 + FIN * 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.20 + RST * 0.50


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

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)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Practice (Reflection) 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 1 13
Preparation for midterm exam 2 5 10
Preparation for final exam 2 5 10
Preparing assignments 3 5 15
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 104

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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