| Course Name | Film Seminar: A Cinema in the Shade II |
| Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
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| GEAR 310 | Fall/Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| Prerequisites | None | |||||
| Course Language | English | |||||
| Course Type | Service Course | |||||
| Course Level | First Cycle | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | - | |||||
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| 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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| 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 Sanssoleil”, Studies in French Cinema, 6:2, 2006, pp. 107-115. Carol Mavor “Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil” Art History. Vol.30 No.5 (Nov 2007), pp.738-756. |
| 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. Sanna Kivimaki, “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) | Coates, Paul. “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, Fatih Akın (2004) | Daniela Berghahn “No place like home? Or impossible homecomings in the films of Fatih Akın” 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 | |
| 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 |
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| Field Work | ||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | ||
| Portfolio | ||
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| Presentation / Jury | ||
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| 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 | 14 | 2 | 28 |
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| Presentation / Jury | |||
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| Seminar / Workshop | |||
| Oral Exam | |||
| Midterms | 1 | 17 | |
| Final Exams | 1 | 27 | |
| Total | 120 |
| # | Program Competencies/Outcomes | * Contribution Level | ||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1 | Successfully applies theoretical and practical knowledge and skills in Gastronomy and Culinary Arts | |||||
| 2 | Carries best practices in terms of work and food security, safety and hygiene in food production | |||||
| 3 | Appreciates, evaluates and makes decisions regarding to visual, textual and nutritional data with respect to food production and presentation | |||||
| 4 | Recognizes and evaluates the impact of gastronomy on culture and society | |||||
| 5 | Assumes responsibility for solving complex problems that may occur in the field of Gastronomy and Culinary Arts, both individually and as a team member | |||||
| 6 | Evaluates the knowledge and skills acquired in the field of Gastronomy and Culinary Arts with a critical approach and effectively communicate their ideas and suggestions for solutions in written and oral form. | |||||
| 7 | Possesses necessary knowledge and skills in relevant fields such as gastronomy, design, law and management and effectively apply them to the practice of Culinary Arts | |||||
| 8 | Uses the technological tools related to Gastronomy and Culinary Arts effectively | |||||
| 9 | Updates and improve the knowledge, skills and competencies related to Gastronomy and Culinary Arts with lifelong learning awareness and sustainability with an ethical approach | |||||
| 10 | Collects data in the areas of Gastronomy and Culinary Arts and communicate with colleagues in a foreign language. (European Language Portfolio Global Scale”, Level B1) | |||||
| 11 | Speaks a second foreign at a medium level of fluency efficiently | |||||
| 12 | Relates the knowledge gained through the history of humanity to the field of expertise | |||||
*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest
