Course Name | Hollywood Cinema |
Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
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GEAR 306 | 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 | - | |||||
Course Lecturer(s) | ||||||
Assistant(s) | - |
Course Objectives | This course aims to enable students to develop a general knowledge of Hollywood's production/distribution/exhibition networks. It identifies main themes and styles throughout Hollywood's history and discusses its patterns of authorship, star system, technology and genres. The course contextualizes Hollywood as a global system not only as a business but also as a system of meanings. |
Learning Outcomes | The students who succeeded in this course;
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Course Description | This course examines Hollywood in its economic, cultural and historical context. It studies its industrial dynamics (studio system, star system, etc.) in parallel with its narrative tendencies and stylistic devices. Students are expected to attend the lectures, watch the films and actively participate with the class discussion following each screening. |
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Media and Managment Skills Courses | ||
Transferable Skill Courses |
Week | Subjects | Required Materials |
1 | Review of the Semester | |
2 | Review of the Semester | |
3 | Introduction - Hollywood and Social Change Modern Times (1936) Charlie Chaplim | Howe, Lawrence. "Charlie Chaplin in the age of Mechanical Reproduction: reflexive ambiguity in Modern Times." College Literature 40, no. 1 (2013): 45-65. |
4 | There is No Place Like Home The Wizard of Oz (1939) Victor Fleming | Pawlett W., Dhanda M., (2010) "The Shared Destiny of the Radically Other: A reading of The Wizard of Oz". Film-Philosophy, Paige, L.R. (1996) Wearing the Red Shoes: Dorothy and the Power of the Female Imagination in The Wizard of Oz, Journal of Popular Film and Television, 23:4, 146-153, |
5 | Doing the Thinking for U.S. Casablanca (1942) Michael Curtiz | Nachbar, Jack, (2000) "Doing the Thinking for All of Us: Casablanca and the Home Front", Journal of Popular Film and Television, 27:4, 5-15, |
6 | Modern Horror Pscycho (1960) Alfred Hitchcock | Clover, Carol J. “Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film.” Representations, no. 20, 1987, pp. 187–228. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/2928507. |
7 | New Hollywood Bonnie and Clyde (1967) Arthur Penn | King, G. (2002). New Hollywood Cinema: An Introduction. Bloomsbury Publishing, pp. 1-39. Schatz, T. The New Hollywood (PDF handout). Tzioumakis, Y. (2006). The New Hollywood and the Independent Hollywood in American Independent Cinema: An Introduction (Rutgers, pp. 169-191. |
8 | Midterm Exam | |
9 | Misogyny and the Threat to Masculinity One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) Milos Forman | Farber, S., Americana, Sweet and Sour, The Hudson Review, Vol. 29, No. 1 (Spring, 1976), pp. 95-102 |
10 | Independent Cinema Do The Right Thing (1989) Spike Lee | Lott, T. L., A No-Theory Theory of Contemporary Black Cinema. Black American Literature Forum, Vol. 25, No. 2, Black Film Issue (Summer, 1991), pp. 221-236. |
11 | The Myth of Boyhood Rushmore (1998) Wes Anderson | Olsen, Mark. “If I Can Dream: The Everlasting Boyhoods of Wes Anderson.” Film Comment, vol. 35, no. 1, 1999, pp. 12–17. |
12 | History and Politics in Horror Cinema Get Out (2017) Jordan Peele | Landsberg, Alison, (2018) Horror Vérité: Politics and History in Jordan Peele’s Get Out. Continuum, 32:5, pp. 629-642. |
13 | Modern Nomads Nomadland (2020) Chloé Zhao | Lindemann, Tim. “Travelling the Scenic Landscape: Community, Nationalism and Precarity in Nomadland.” Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication, Volume 13, Number 1, 1 June 2022, pp. 25-40. White, Patricia. “Women Auteurs, Western Promises” Film Quarterly (2022) 75 (4): pp. 23–33. |
14 | Course Review/Final Exam | |
15 | Course Review | |
16 | Course Review |
Course Notes/Textbooks | |
Suggested Readings/Materials | Bordwell, David, and Kristin Thompson. Film History: An Introduction. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2008 |
Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
Participation | 1 | 10 |
Laboratory / Application | ||
Field Work | ||
Quizzes / Studio Critiques | ||
Portfolio | ||
Homework / Assignments | ||
Presentation / Jury | ||
Project | ||
Seminar / Workshop | ||
Oral Exam | ||
Midterm | 1 | 40 |
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 | 0 | ||
Field Work | |||
Quizzes / Studio Critiques | 34 | ||
Portfolio | |||
Homework / Assignments | |||
Presentation / Jury | |||
Project | |||
Seminar / Workshop | |||
Oral Exam | |||
Midterms | 1 | 30 | |
Final Exams | 1 | 42 | |
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. |
*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest