COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CINEMA AND CONTEMPORARY THEORIES

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FTA 5138 CINEMA AND CONTEMPORARY THEORIES ELECTIVE 3 0 0 7

Offered By

Film Design

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR SAVAŞ ARSLAN

Offered to

Film Design

Course Objective

Focusing on the contemporary theoretical aspects of cinema, this course will first introduce the new foundations and main tenets of film art after the digital turn and then present the methods of thinking and writing on novel film practices. The first part of the course will discuss how the form-content distinction informs narrative, cinematography, editing, mise-en-scene, and sound and then exemplify contemporary approaches on thinking, approaching, and writing on cinema.

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. The contemporary theoretical approaches in cinematic arts, 2. The analytical distinctions in studying the contemporary cinematic practices, 3. The production of scholarly literature on contemporary cinema, 4. The main approaches on contemporary cinematic practices, and 5. The recent categories in the film studies literature.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to Contemporary Cinema and Syllabus
2 Cinema and New Technologies
3 Cinema and New Technologies
4 The New Mise-en-scene
5 Digital Cinematography
6 Digital Cinematography
7 New Sounds
8 The Thought and Writing of the Postcinematic
9 Approaches to the Cinema Literature
10 Approaches to the Cinema Literature
11 Forms, Genres, Ideologies
12 Quantitative and Digital Approaches
13 Cinematic Technology and Interfaces
14 The Postcinematic and the AI

Recomended or Required Reading

Bordwell, David ve Kristin Thompson. 2012. Film Sanatı. Ankara: De Ki.
Corrigan, Timothy. 2008. Film Eleştirisi El Kitabı. Ankara: Dipnot.
Manovich, Lev. 2001. The Language of New Media. Cambridge, MA: MIT UP.
Jeong, Seung-Hoon. 2013. Cinematic Interfaces: Film Theory After New Media. NY ve Londra: Routledge.
Hidalgo, Santiago. 2018. Technology and Film Scholarship. Amsterdam: Amsterdam UP.
Cook, Roger F. 2020. Post-Cinematic Vision. Minneapolis: Minnesota UP.

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 assignments 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


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

TBA

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

TBA

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

savas.arslan@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

TBA

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparation for quiz etc. 13 8 104
Final 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 169

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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