At the end of this course, the students; 1) develop an understanding of the various concepts and methods used in memory studies and essay film. 2) get experience in media productions with a spirit of an essay writer. 3) learn to produce works that combines several audio-visual material (photograph, animation, sound, illustration, found images etc.).
MODE OF DELIVERY
Face to face
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE
No
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT
None.
COURSE DEFINITION
This interdisciplinary course that combines both practice and theory, concentrates on memory studies and the hybrid genre of essay film. The forms that approach the images and concepts of production critically; different usages of various visual and audio material such as photograph, video, animation, sound, illustration, found image and found footage are explained within the context of works of the pioneer directors of memory and photo essay and essay films are produced by the means of the theoretical knowledge.
COURSE CONTENTS
WEEK
TOPICS
1st Week
Introduction to the course
2nd Week
Memory
3rd Week
Memory and image
4th Week
Memory and film
5th Week
Found image
6th Week
Found footage
7th Week
Essay film I
8th Week
Mid-term exam
9th Week
Visualizing words: Transforming text to film
10th Week
The skin of the film
11th Week
Project Design I: Subjective video essay
12th Week
Project Design II: Method
13th Week
Project Design III: Project proposal presentation
14th Week
Project Design VI: Discussion
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING
Alter, Nora. (2007) "Translating the Essay into Film and Installation", Journal of Visual Culture, 6(1). Boyarin, Jonathan (ed.) Remapping Memory: The Politics of Time and Space Beckman, Karen; Ma, Jean (2008) Still Moving: Between Cinema and Photography, Duke University Press Books Corrigan, Timothy (2011) The Essay Film: From Montaigne, After Marker, Oxford University Press Corrigan, Timothy (2008) "The Forgotten Image Between Two Shots": Photos, Photograms, and the Essayistic? Still Moving: Between Cinema and Photography, ed. Karen Beckman and Jean Ma, Duke University Press. Citron, Michelle (1998) Home Movies and Other Necessary Fictions, University of Minnesota Press. Lebow, Alisa (2012) The Cinema of Me: The Self and Subjectivity in First Person Documentary, Wallflower Press. Marks, Laura. (2000) The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses. Duke University Press, Mitchell, W.J.T. "What Happened to the Essay" the Chicago Tribune on-line site Proust, Marcel. (2005). In Search of Lost Time. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin trans. London: Vintage Books. Rascaroli, Laura (2008) The Essay Film: Problems, Definitions, Textual Commitments, The Journal of Cinema and Media, 49:2, 24-47 Russell, Catherine (1999) Experimental Ethnography: The Work of Film in the Age of Video, Duke University Press Books Terdiman, Richard. (1993) Present Past: Modernity and the Memory Crisis. Cornell University Press. Warren, Charles (1996) Beyond Document: Essays on Nonfiction Film, Middletown,CT: Wesleyan Univesity Press.
PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS
Lecture,Discussion,Practice,Project
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA
Quantity
Percentage(%)
Mid-term
1
10
Assignment
3
30
Project
1
50
Attendance
1
10
Total(%)
100
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%)
100
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%)
0
Total(%)
100
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
Turkish
WORK PLACEMENT(S)
No
KEY LEARNING OUTCOMES (KLO) / MATRIX OF LEARNING OUTCOMES (LO)