At the end of this course, the students; 1) Learn to interpret the film in its historical-cultural context
2) Comprehend a film (or an era) by considering its precessors and successors(the factors those cause a film emerge and the effect of the film on the history of cinema) 3) Get abilities to relate the cinema with the wold history, the movements of thought and individual life
MODE OF DELIVERY
Face to face
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE
No
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT
COURSE DEFINITION
The course presents a perspective to the students to analyze the decay of other country cinemas from Hollywood, which has been rooted essentially in America and created its own language, style and a vision network on world with the studio/star system, and independent and multi-joint movies in world vision network. In this first course the subjects such as the invention, discovery and proliferation of cinema will be covered.
COURSE CONTENTS
WEEK
TOPICS
1st Week
Introduction, Introduction to course
2nd Week
Brief history of photography and cinematography.
3rd Week
Early years, T. Edison, Lumiere Brothers and George Melies, E.S. Porter, D.W. Griffith, Formalist and Realistic Film Theories. Movies: The Kleptomaniac (1905)The Great Train Robbery (1903) The Life of An American Fireman (1903)David Wark Griffith The Birth of A Nation (1915) Intolerance (1916)
4th Week
Robert Flaherty and the Birth of Documentary Cinema, John Grierson and British Documentary Movement. Movies: Nanook of the North (1922), Fishing Boats (1929)
5th Week
Gags; Mack Sennett, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Charles Chaplin. Movies: Keystone Cops, Modern Times (1936), The Great Dictator (1940)
6th Week
German Expressionism, Robert Wiene, F.W. Murnau, Fritz Lang. Movies: Dr. Caligari's Practice (1920) Nosferatu (1922), Metropolis (1927), M (1931)
7th Week
Soviet Cinema and Montage, Lev Kuleshov, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Dziga Vertov, Sergey Eisenstein. Movies: The Man with the Camera (1929) Enthusiasm (1931) Battleship Potemkin (1925) Walter Ruttman Berlin, Symphony of a Great City (1927)
8th Week
Presentations
9th Week
Presentations
10th Week
Wartime Cinema, Leni Riefenstahl, Frank Capra, John Ford, John Huston, William Wyler. Movies: Triumph of Perseverance (1935) Why We Fight Series
11th Week
Postwar Cinema, Italian Neorealism, French New Wave. Roberto Rosselini, Vittoria De Sica, Jean-Luc Godard. Movies: Rome, Open City (1945) Bicycle Thieves (1949) Rogue Lovers (1960)
12th Week
Cinema Verite, Direct Cinema Jean Rouch & Edgar Morin, Chris Marker, Robert Drew & Richard Leacock. Films: A Summer Diary (1961) Petit a Petit (Bit by Little, 1969)Beautiful May (1963)Primary (1960)
13th Week
Final Film Analyses Project Submission and Presentations
14th Week
Final Film Analyses Project Submission and Presentations
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING
Teksoy, Rekin, (2005) Rekin Teksoy?un Sinema Tarihi, İstanbul, Oğlak Yayıncılık.
Monaco, James, (2007) Bir Film Nasıl Okunur?, çev. Ertan Yılmaz, İstanbul, Oğlak Yayıncılık. (zorunlu)
Kolker, Robert (2011) Film, Biçim ve Kültür, çev. Ertan Yılmaz, Fırat Ertınaz, Ali Güney, Zeynep Özen, Onur Şakır, Berivan Tokem, Dilek Tunalı, Ankara, De Ki Yayınevi.
Kolker, Robert (2010), Değişen Bakış, çev. Ertan Yılmaz, Ankara, De Ki Yayınevi.
Bazin, Andre, () Sinema Nedir
DÜNYA SİNEMA TARİHİ, Editör: Geoffrey Nowell - Smith, Çeviren: Ahmet Fethi, Kabalcı Yayınevi, İstanbul, 2003
SİNEMANIN ÖYKÜSÜ Paul Rotha, İzdüşüm Yayınları, İstanbul, 2000.
SİNEMANIN YÜZYILI Giorgio Vincenti,(Çev.: E. Ayça), Evrensel Kültür Kitaplığı, İstanbul,1993.
ÇAĞDAŞ SİNEMANIN SORUNLARI Andre Bazin,(Çev.: Nijat Özön), Bilgi Yayınevi, Ankara, 1966.
SİNEMA DERSLERİ Sergey M. Eisenstein, (Çev.: Engin Ayça), Hil Yayınları, İst,1986.