| Course Name | Contemporary World Cinema |
| Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
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| GEAR 307 | Fall/Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| Prerequisites | None | |||||
| Course Language | English | |||||
| Course Type | Service Course | |||||
| Course Level | First Cycle | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | - | |||||
| Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course | DiscussionQ&ALecture / Presentation | |||||
| Course Coordinator | - | |||||
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| Assistant(s) | - | |||||
| Course Objectives | This course aims to introduce students to contemporary world cinema. It consists of film history, key concepts in film studies and world cinema research, and questions of representation in relation to issues of gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity in a global context. |
| Learning Outcomes | The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Description | This course combines viewing of films followed by class discussion. Each week, we will summarize key points and arguments made by a film scholar on a particular topic and watch a film that relates closely to the text. This course combines viewing of films followed by class discussion. Each week, we will summarize key points and arguments made by a film scholar on a particular topic and watch a film that relates closely to the text. |
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| Media and Managment Skills Courses | ||
| Transferable Skill Courses |
| Week | Subjects | Required Materials |
| 1 | Introduction | |
| 2 | Middle Eastern Cinema: Iran Ten, Abbas Kiarostami, 2002 (94 min) | Moore, L. C. (2005) “Women in a Widening Frame: (Cross-) Cultural Projection, Spectatorship and Iranian Cinema” Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture and Media Studies, 20(2), pp. 1-33. |
| 3 | Eastern European Cinema: Romania Occident, Cristian Mungiu, 2002 (102 min) | Adriana Cordali Gradea (2018) “The rhetoric of leaving, or the mirage of the fetishized West in Cristian Mungiu’s Occident” Journal of European Studies. Volume 48, issue 3-4, page(s): 250-264. Marian Țuțui and Raluca Iacob, “New Romanian Cinema: Geography and Identity” in Edited by Christina Stojanov The New Romanian Cinema. Edinburg University Press. 2021. |
| 4 | Western European Cinema I Caché, Michael Haneke (2005) | Nancy E. Virtue “Memory, Trauma, and the French-Algerian War: Michael Haneke's Caché (2005)” Modern & Contemporary France, 19:3. 2011, pp. 281-296. |
| 5 | Western European Cinema II Head-On, Fatih Akın (2004) | Berna Güneli “Chapter Two: Language Use and Dialogue: Multilingualism in Akın’s Head-On” in Güneli (2011) Challenging European Borders: Fatih Akın’s Filmic Visions of Europe, PhD dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin, pp. 96-126. |
| 6 | Subcontinent Cinema: India Slumdog Millionaire (2008) Danny Boyle | Ana Cristina Mendes (2010) “Showcasing India Unshining: Film Tourism in Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire” Third Text, 24:4, 471-479. |
| 7 | The Global South: Burkina Faso Under the Moonlight (2004) Appoline Traoré | Lizelle Bisschoff (2010) “Visions of female emancipation: three recent films from West Africa” Journal of African Cinemas, Vol. 2:1, 37-48. |
| 8 | Midterm Exam | |
| 9 | Cinema in Australia and New Zealand The Piano (1993) Jane Campion | Barbara Klinger (2006) “The art film, affect and the female viewer: The Piano revisited” Screen, Volume 47, Issue 1, Spring 2006, Pages 19–41. |
| 10 | Korean New Wave Parasite (2017) Bong Joon-Ho | Schulze, Jonathan (2019) “The Sacred Engine and the Rice Paddy: Globalization, Genre, and Local Space in the Films of Bong Joon-ho” Journal of Popular Film and Television, 47:1, 21-29, pp. 21-29. |
| 11 | Japanese Cinema Shoplifters (2018) Hirokazu Kore-eda | Erlich, Linda C., (2011). “Kore-eda’s Ocean View” Film Criticism, Vol. 35, No. 2/3, pp.127–146. |
| 12 | Latin America: Mexico Roma (2018) Alfonso Cuarón | Sergio de la Mora (2019) “Roma: Reparation versus Exploitation” Film Quarterly 72 (4): 46–53. |
| 13 | Latin America: Brazil Aquarius (2016) Kleber Mendonça Filho | Stephanie Dennison (2018) “Intimacy and cordiality in Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Aquarius” Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies. 24:3, 329-340. |
| 14 | Course Review | |
| 15 | Course Review | |
| 16 | Final Exam |
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| Suggested Readings/Materials |
| Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
| Participation | 1 | 20 |
| Laboratory / Application | ||
| Field Work | ||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | ||
| Portfolio | ||
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| Presentation / Jury | ||
| Project | ||
| Seminar / Workshop | ||
| Oral Exam | ||
| Midterm | 1 | 30 |
| Final Exam | 1 | 50 |
| Total |
| Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 3 | 100 |
| Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | ||
| Total |
| Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | 3 | 48 |
| Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | ||
| Study Hours Out of Class | 14 | 2 | 28 |
| Field Work | |||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | |||
| Portfolio | |||
| Homework / Assignments | |||
| Presentation / Jury | |||
| Project | |||
| Seminar / Workshop | |||
| Oral Exam | |||
| Midterms | 1 | 18 | |
| Final Exams | 1 | 26 | |
| Total | 120 |
| # | Program Competencies/Outcomes | * Contribution Level | ||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1 | To be able to acquire theoretical and practical knowledge and skills in the area. | |||||
| 2 | To be able to approach problems with an analytical and holistic viewpoint. | |||||
| 3 | To be able to gain knowledge about both national and international accounting and auditing standards. | |||||
| 4 | To be able to communicate the findings and solutions to the accounting and auditing problems in written and oral formats. | |||||
| 5 | To be able to critically evaluate the performance of accounting and other related management information systems, and organizations. | |||||
| 6 | To be able to develop innovative and creative approach to real-life business issues. | |||||
| 7 | To be able to integrate knowledge gained in the main areas of accounting and auditing through a strategic perspective. | |||||
| 8 | To be able to act in accordance with the scientific and ethical values in studies related to accounting and auditing. | |||||
| 9 | To be able to demonstrate both leadership and team-work skills through being an efficient and effective team member. | |||||
| 10 | To be able to have an ethical perspective and social responsiveness when evaluating and making business decisions. | |||||
| 11 | To be able to collect data in the area of business administration and communicate with colleagues in a foreign language ("European Language Portfolio Global Scale", Level B1). | |||||
| 12 | To be able to speak a second foreign at a medium level of fluency efficiently. | |||||
| 13 | To be able to relate the knowledge accumulated throughout the human history to their field of expertise. | |||||
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