COURSE UNIT TITLE

: FILM AND GENDER II

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FTA 5086 FILM AND GENDER II ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Film Design

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR EMRAH SUAT ONAT

Offered to

Film Design

Course Objective

To explain the gender representation forms of film and other art fields as social phenomenon and to determine the differences between gender and sex and to examine these differences in a critical view.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To identify the relations between film and gender
2   To consider films which have traditional narrative structures and to criticize the gender approachs to these films.
3   To evaluate the socio-politics and the cultural function of cinema, especially, on creating the gender stereotypes.
4   To have up-do-date information on the formation of gender as a social institution;
5   To explain how the gender roles are understood under the influence of social structure;
6   To associate the transfer of gender roles and patriarchy;
7   To determine the perspectives that subordinates the woman in the gender relations.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Presentation of gender and sex (a summary and general evaluation)
2 The body of men and women in mainstream cinema
3 The men and women in cinema
4 The process of viewership and reception
5 Case study 1: the heroine in Hollywood Sci-Fi
6 Case Study 2: the representations of woman in horror movies (Psycho and Exorcist)
7 The Final Girl and masculin woman
8 The image of heroine in film and the axis of father-priest-god
9 The analysis outside Oidipus: Monstrous feminine and Alien films
10 Presentation - 1
11 Presentation - 2
12 Presentation - 3
13 Conclusion
14 Mid-term exam

Recomended or Required Reading

The textbooks and reference materials will be given at the begining of the semester

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1.
The students must gather and discuss topics related to the subject of the week and mark important notes on the related topics.

2.
The courses will be held as seminars with participation of all the students and the lecturer. With this more intense knowledge will be obtained.

3.

It is expected from the course to take place in a democratic condition which allows the students make arguements and ask relative questions.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 PRJ PROJECT
3 PAR PARTICIPATION
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.20 + PRJ * 0.30 + PAR * 0.20 +FCG * 0.30
6 RST RESIT
7 RST RESIT


*** 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 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 3 39
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Preparing assignments 1 15 15
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 124

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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