COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CINEMA AND THE CITY

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ERA 3024 CINEMA AND THE CITY ELECTIVE 2 0 0 4

Offered By

Architecture

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DENIZ BALIK

Offered to

Architecture
City and Regional Planning

Course Objective

The aim of the course is to introduce the intersection points of cinema and the city. There will be film screenings in the course. Subjected to change every semester, the schedule may have a thematic framework or it may specifically focus on a sub-genre, such as anime, science-fiction, and experimental cinema.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To grasp the intersection points of cinema and the city
2   To identify cinematic ways of seeing and thinking
3   To interpret cities and architecture in cinema
4   To evaluate the relationship of cinema with the city, architecture, culture, society, art, and technology

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to the course
2 Film theories and movements
3 Film screening and discussion on film theories and movements
4 Cinematography, Soviet montage theory, Gilles Deleuze s cinematographic approach
5 Film screening and its cinematographic analysis
6 Mid-term exam
7 Formal, historical, and structural analysis of a film
8 Film screening and its structural analysis
9 Urban, social, philosophical, and techno-scientific film criticism
10 Film screening and its urban, social, philosophical, and techno-scientific criticism
11 Psychological and psychoanalytical film analysis
12 Film screening and its Freudian analysis
13 Film screening and its Jungian analysis
14 Film screening and discussion
15 Closing remarks: General evaluation of the course

Recomended or Required Reading

Baudrillard, Jean (1994) Simulacra and simulation, trans. Sheila Faria Glaser, Ann Harbour, MI: University of Michigan Press.
Bolton, Christopher et al. (2007) Robot ghosts and wired dreams: Japanese science fiction from origins to anime, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
Deleuze, Gilles (1992) Postscript on the societies of control , October 59, pp. 3-7.
Deleuze, Gilles (1997) Cinema 1: The movement-image, 5th ed., trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
Deleuze, Gilles (1997) Cinema 2: The time-image, 5th ed., trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Robert Galeta, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
Denison, Rayna (2015), Anime: A critical introduction, London: Bloomsbury,
Eisenstein, Sergei (1969) Film form: Essays in film theory, trans. Jay Leyda, New York, NY: Harcourt.
Eisenstein, Sergei (1969) The film sense, trans. Jay Leyda, New York, NY: Harcourt.
Foucault, Michel (1979) Discipline and punish: The birth of prison, trans. Alan Sheridan, New York, NY: Vintage.
Freud, Sigmund (2003) The uncanny, trans. David Mclintock, London: Penguin.
Freud, Sigmund (2019) The ego and the id, trans. Hannah Correll, New York, NY: Clydesdale.
Hockley, Luke, Jung
Jung, Carl Gustav (2003) Four archetypes: Mother, rebirth, spirit, trickster, trans. R. F. C. Hull, London, New York, NY: Routledge.
Jung, Carl Gustav (1986) Analytical psychology: Its theory and practice, New York, NY: Routledge.
Martin-Jones, David (2008) Movement-images, time-images and hybrid-images in cinema , in Deleuze reframed: A guide for the arts student, ed. Damian Sutton & David Martin-Jones, pp. 91-106. New York, NY: I. B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
Napier, Susan (2005) Anime from Akira to Howl s Moving Castle: Experiencing contemporary Japanese animation, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.
Roberts, Philip (2014) Godard in Sarajevo: Media control in Deleuze and Virilio , Cultural Politics 10(3), pp. 333-353.
Rushton, Richard (2012) Cinema after Deleuze, London: Continuum.
Virilio, Paul (2006) The information bomb, London: Verso.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, film screening, discussion.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 AS Arasınav
2 DK DerseKatılım
3 YYS Yarıyılsonu Notu
4 BNS Başarı Notu AS * 0.20 + DK * 0.40 + YYS * 0.40
5 BUT Bütünleme Notu
6 BBN Bütünleme Sonu Başarı Notu AS * 0.20 + DK * 0.40 + BUT * 0.40


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Class participation will be evaluated through students active participation in class discussions. Throughout the semester, student participation will depend on: 1) The ability of students discussions during film screening and analysis with reference to the texts elaborated prior to screenings and topics handled in the course. 2) The quality of students responses to questions during the course, 3) Students overall contribution throughout the course to create a positive learning environment.

Assessment Criteria

Mid-term exam %20 (LO1, LO2)
Class participation %40 (LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4)
Final %40 (LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4)
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Make-up %40 (LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4)

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

1. It is not considered as a valid excuse to be absent in class for late submissions of assingments, class participations, and exams.
2. All kinds of plagiarism will result in a disciplinary action.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

e-mail: deniz.balik@deu.edu.tr
tel: 0 232 301 84 98

Office Hours

will be announced

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 7 2 14
Case study 6 2 12
Applying activity 11 2 22
Preparation for midterm exam 1 20 20
Preparation for final exam 1 28 28
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 100

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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LO.11
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LO.3
LO.4