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COURSE UNIT TITLECOURSE UNIT CODESEMESTERTHEORY + PRACTICE (Hour)ECTS
THE POLITICS AND AESTHETICS OF THE IMAGE RTS531 First Term (Fall) 3 + 0 10

TYPE OF COURSE UNITCompulsory Course
LEVEL OF COURSE UNITMaster's Degree With Thesis
YEAR OF STUDY1
SEMESTERFirst Term (Fall)
NUMBER OF ECTS CREDITS ALLOCATED10
NAME OF LECTURER(S)Professor Şebnem Pala Güzel
Assistant Professor Erdem İlic
LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT At the end of this course, the students;
1) avail themselves of an understanding of key concepts and debates about both image and moving image with reference to art, philosophy and politics.
2) learn to locate and contemplate on different theoretical positions towards aesthetic and politics of image.
3) learn to construct a solid grounding of conceptual and theoretical language within various context of the image and also to analyze and synthesize the interplay of aesthetic, politics and technology in relation to both reproduction and reception of the image.
MODE OF DELIVERYFace to face
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSENo
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENTnone.
COURSE DEFINITIONThe perception of time-space, which is expressed through the image, is realized by the theoretical and political interface that communication, politics, philosophy and art creates among each other's. In this course, the philosophical, aesthetic quality of the image and its movement in time-space and politics of theseepistemological and methodological positions that creates the interfaces areanalyzed through present, probable type and narratives by a critical perspective.
COURSE CONTENTS
WEEKTOPICS
1st Week Image: visible and invisible. Image anti-image
2nd Week Aesthetics and philosophy of art and image
3rd Week The origin of work of art in reference to image
4th Week The ontology of the image
5th Week Cinematographic image
6th Week Poetics of media
7th Week Semiotics of the image
8th Week Midterm
9th Week Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology
10th Week Hermeneutics of the image
11th Week Representation: aesthetic and politics
12th Week Reception:aesthetic pole and and artistic pole
13th Week Reception: dominant, negotiated and oppositional
14th Week Visual culture and visual representation
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READINGAsa Berger, Arthur. 1984. Signs in Contemporary Culture. NewYork: Longman.
Deleuze Gilles. 2014 Sinema I Hareket-İmge (Çev.Soner Özdemir).İstanbul:Norgunk.
Deleuze Gilles & Felix Guattari. 2014. A Thousand Plateaus (Trans. Brain Massumi) Bloomsbury Press.
Eco, Umberto. 1979. A theory of semiotics. Bloomington Indiana University Press
Eco, Umberto. 2012. Güzelliğin Tarihi (Çev. Ali Cevat Akkoyunlu).İsatnbul: Doğan Egmont Yayıncılık.
Eco, Umberto. 2009. Çirkinliğin Tarihi (Çev. Tankut Gökçe).Istanbul: Doğan Egmont Yayıncılık.
Foucault, Michel. 1970 The Order of Things (trans. Anon). London: Routledge
Heiddeger, Martin. The Origin of Work of Art. Cambridge University Press.
Jauss, Hans Herbert. 1982.Toward an Aesthetic of Reception (Trans. Timothy Bahti) Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Mitchell, W. J. T. 1986. Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
Panofsky, Erwing. 1972. Studies in Iconology. Oxford: WestviewPress.
PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODSLecture,Discussion
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA
 QuantityPercentage(%)
Mid-term120
Assignment140
Total(%)60
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%)60
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%)40
Total(%)100
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTIONEnglish
WORK PLACEMENT(S)No
  

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