| Course Name | Film Seminar II Modern Cinema |
| Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
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| CDM 212 | Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| Prerequisites | None | |||||
| Course Language | English | |||||
| Course Type | Required | |||||
| Course Level | First Cycle | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | Online | |||||
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| Course Coordinator | - | |||||
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| Assistant(s) | - | |||||
| Course Objectives | This course aims to introduce students to films that have an important place in film history and yet have low visibility in the framework of commercial cinema, and to enable the students to acquire film culture. |
| Learning Outcomes | The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Description | This is the second of a series of courses, introducing and screening films crucial to forming film culture and not readily available elsewhere. The course includes canonic, experimental, avant-garde (commercial or non-commercial) examples of early cinema, American studio films, European art films, world cinema. There will be one midterm and one final exam. |
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| Core Courses | X |
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| Week | Subjects | Required Materials |
| 1 | Introduction | |
| 2 | Postmodern Dystopia Screening Blade Runner, Ridley Scott (1982) | Giuliana Bruno “Ramble City: Postmodernism and Blade Runner” October, Vol. 41 (Summer, 1987), pp. 61-74. |
| 3 | Essay Film Screening Sans Soleil, Chris Marker (1983) | David Montero “Film also ages: time and images in Chris Marker's Sans soleil”, Studies in French Cinema, 6:2, 2006, pp. 107-115. |
| 4 | American Independent Cinema Screening Stranger Than Paradise, Jim Jarmusch (1984) | Richard Linnett “As American as You Are: Jim Jarmusch and Stranger than Paradise” Cinéaste, Vol. 14, No. 1 (1985), pp. 26-28. Jamie Sexton. Stranger Than Paradise. Wallflower P, pp. 28-51. |
| 5 | New German Cinema Screening Wings of Desire, Wim Wenders (1987) | David Caldwell & Paul Rea “Handke’s and Wenders’ Wings of Desire. Transcending Postmodernism” The German Quarterly; Winter 1991; 64 (1), pp.46-54. Anton Kaes “The New German Cinema” in The Oxford History of World Cinema, G. Nowell-Smith (Ed), Oxford University Press, 1996, pp. 614-627. |
| 6 | Cinéma du Look Screening Nikita, Luc Besson (1990) | Sue Harris, “Cinema du Look,” European Cinema, ed. Elizabeth Ezra. Oxford University Press. 2004. pp.219-233. |
| 7 | New Iranian Cinema Screening Close-up, Abbas Kiarostami (1990) | Hamid Naficy “Iranian Cinema” in The Oxford History of World Cinema, G. Nowell-Smith (Ed), Oxford University Press, 1996, pp. 672-678. Godfrey Cheshire “Where Iranian Cinema Is” Film Comment, Vol. 29, No. 2 (MARCH–APRIL 1993), pp. 38-43. Phillip Lopate “Kiarostami Close Up” Film Comment, Vol. 32, No. 4 (JULY-AUGUST 1996), pp. 37-40. |
| 8 | MIDTERM EXAM | |
| 9 | Northern European Farce Screening The Match Factory Girl, Aki Kaurismaki (1990) | Bert Cardullo“Finnish Character: An Interview with Aki Kaurismäki”Film Quarterly, Vol. 59, No. 4 (Summer 2006), pp. 4-10. SannaKivimaki, “Working-class girls in a welfare state: Finnishness, social class and gender in Aki Kaurismäki's Workers' Trilogy (1986-1990)” Journal of Scandinavian Cinema, Volume 2, Number 1, 31 January 2012, pp. 73-88. Jonathan Romney “Last Exit to Helsinki: The Bleak Comedic Genius of Aki Kaurismäki, Finland’s Finest” Film Comment, Vol. 39, No. 2 (MARCH/APRIL 2003), pp. 43-45, 47. |
| 10 | Eastern European Cinema Screening Red, Krzysztof Kieslowski(1994) | Paul Coates. “Kieślowski and the Antipolitics of Color: A Reading of the ‘Three Colors’ Trilogy.” Cinema Journal, vol. 41, no. 2, 2002, pp. 41–66. |
| 11 | New Asian Cinema Screening Chungking Express, Wong Kar Wai (1994) | Raymond Bellour“Chungking Express: Slow ‐ Images ‐ Ahead” in A Companion to Wong Kar‐wai. Ed. Martha Nochimson,John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2016, pp. 347-352. Chuck Stephens “Time pieces: Wong Kar-Wai and the Persistence of Memory” Film Comment, Vol. 32, No. 1 (Jan-Feb 1996), pp. 12-18. |
| 12 | Cinema of the banlieus Screening Le Haine, Mathieu Kassovitz (1995) | Amy Siciliano, “La Haine: Framing the ‘Urban Outcasts’” ACME International Journal for Critical Geographies, Vol. 6 No. 2. 2007, pp.211-230. |
| 13 | Migrant and Diasporic Cinema Screening Head-On, FatihAkın (2004) | Daniela Berghahn “No place like home? Or impossible homecomings in the films of FatihAkın” New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film, Volume 4, Number 3, Feb 2006, pp. 141-157. |
| 14 | Postcolonial European Cinema Screening 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. |
| 15 | Review of the semester | |
| 16 | FINAL EXAM |
| Course Notes/Textbooks |
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| Suggested Readings/Materials | Geoffrey Nowell-Smith. The Oxford History of World Cinema. Oxford University Press, 1999.
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| Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
| Participation | 1 | 20 |
| Laboratory / Application | ||
| Field Work | ||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | ||
| Portfolio | ||
| Homework / Assignments | ||
| 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 |
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| 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 | 16 | 2 | 32 |
| Field Work | |||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | |||
| Portfolio | |||
| Homework / Assignments | |||
| Presentation / Jury | |||
| Project | |||
| Seminar / Workshop | |||
| Oral Exam | |||
| Midterms | 1 | 15 | |
| Final Exams | 1 | 25 | |
| Total | 120 |
| # | Program Competencies/Outcomes | * Contribution Level | ||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1 | To be able to have fundamental knowledge about narrative forms in cinema, digital and interactive media, and the foundational concepts relevant to these forms. | X | ||||
| 2 | To be able to create narratives based on creative and critical thinking skills, by using the forms and tools of expression specific to cinema and digital media arts. | X | ||||
| 3 | To be able to use the technical equipment and software required for becoming a specialist/expert in cinema and digital media. | |||||
| 4 | To be able to perform skills such as scriptwriting, production planning, use of the camera, sound recording, lighting and editing, at the basic level necessary for pre-production, production and post-production phases of an audio-visual work; and to perform at least one of them at an advanced level. | |||||
| 5 | To be able to discuss how meaning is made in cinema and digital media; how economy, politics and culture affect regimes of representation; and how processes of production, consumption, distribution and meaning-making shape narratives. | |||||
| 6 | To be able to perform the special technical and aesthetic skills at the basic level necessary to create digital media narratives in the fields of interactive film, video installation, experimental cinema and virtual reality. | X | ||||
| 7 | To be able to critically analyze a film or digital media artwork from technical, intellectual and artistic perspectives. | |||||
| 8 | To be able to participate in the production of a film or digital media artwork as a member or leader of a team, following the principles of work safety and norms of ethical behavior. | X | ||||
| 9 | To be able to stay informed about global scientific, social, economic, cultural, political, institutional and industrial developments. | |||||
| 10 | To be able to develop solutions to legal, scientific and professional problems surrounding the field of cinema and digital media. | |||||
| 11 | To be able to use a foreign language to communicate with colleagues and collect data in the field of cinema and digital media. ("European Language Portfolio Global Scale", Level B1). | |||||
| 12 | To be able to use a second foreign language at the medium level. | |||||
| 13 | To be able to connect the knowledge accumulated throughout human history to the field of expertise. | X | ||||
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