COURSE UNIT TITLE

: FILM AND PHILOSOPHY

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FTA 6026 FILM AND PHILOSOPHY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Film Design

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR SAVAŞ ARSLAN

Offered to

Film Design

Course Objective

In this course, film philosophy, as a field of art philosophy, will be covered. Having its backdrop in aesthetics-based approaches focusing on art work and in particular on film and also nurtured by the interdisciplinary approaches of film studies, film philosophy utilizes the interactions between philosophy and film theory. The course will also feature an overview of film literature, film sense, narrative and social repercussions of the link between film and philosophy before delving into the contemporary philosophical approaches on toward where cinema is moving.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   At the end of this course, student will be expected to have a knowledge of the following: 1. What film philosophy, as a particular field of art philosophy, is, 2. The aesthetic and interdisciplinary dimensions of film as a work of art, 3. The nature of film and its relation to other art forms, 4. The sense of film, its narrative and social dimensions, and 5. The contemporary philosophical manifestations of film.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 1 Introduction to Film Philosophy and Syllabus
2 2 Film and the Nature of the Film
3 3 The Concept of film philosophy
4 4 The Thought of Film
5 5 The World and Filmic Views
6 6 The Ontology of Film
7 7 Reality and the Document
8 8 The Sense of Film
9 9 Narrative and Film
10 10 Film and Society
11 11 Film and Ethics
12 12 Film and Knowledge
13 13 Film and the Inhuman
14 14 Film as Non-Film

Recomended or Required Reading

Main sources:
Öztürk, Serdar. 2018. Sinema Felsefesine Giriş. Istanbul: Ütopya.
Cündioğlu, Dücane. 2013. Sinema ve Felsefe. Istanbul: Kapı.
Additional Sources:
Wartenberg, TE ve A Curran (Der). 2005. The Philosophy of Film. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
Carroll N ve J Choi (Der). 2006. Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
Cavell, Stanley. 1979. The World Viewed. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP.
Carroll, Noel. 2008. The Philosophy of Motion Pictures. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
Ranciere, Jack. 2009. The Future of the Image. London: Verso.
Andrew, Dudley. 2010. What Cinema Is. West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell.
Brown, William. 2015. Supercinema: Film Philosophy fort he Digital Age. New York: Berghahn.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

The courses will be held through
1. the students preparation for the course by reading the assigned texts and discussing them with their classmates before the class,
2. the students active participation in class by asking questions and through discussions, and
3. in addition to doing the necessary readings in relation to film theory, by supplementing their written contribution to class through homeworks and exams.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 ASG ASSIGNMENT
2 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) ASG * 0.50 + FN * 0.50
4 RST RESIT
5 RST RESIT ASG * 0.50 + 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)

savas.arslan@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 6 84
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Final 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 149

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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