At the end of this course, the students; 1) Learn to interpret the film in its historical-cultural context
2) Comprehend a film (or a movement) 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) Gain the ability 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
Pre-cinema devices, 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
4th Week
Robert Flaherty and the Birth of Documentary Cinema, John Grierson and British Documentary Movement
5th Week
Silent Comedies
6th Week
Silent Comedies
7th Week
German Expressionism
8th Week
Midterm Exam Week
9th Week
Soviet Cinema and Montage
10th Week
Soviet Cinema and Montage
11th Week
Wartime Cinema
12th Week
Postwar Cinema, Italian neorealism, French New wave
13th Week
Cinema Verite, Direct Cinema
14th Week
Cinema Verite, Direct Cinema
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING
Abisel, Nilgün (2006) Sessiz Sinema. Ankara: DeKi Hayward, Susan. Sinemanın Temel Kavramları (Çev. U. Kutay & M. Çavuş). İstanbul: Es. Martha P. Nochimson. Bir Dünya Sinema. (Çev. Ö. Yaren). De Ki Yayınları. Monaco, James. (2001). Bir Film Nasıl Okunur? Sinema Dili, Tarihi ve Kuramı (Çev. E. Yılmaz). İstanbul: Oğlak. Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey (Ed.) (2003). Dünya Sinema Tarihi. (Çev. Ahmet Fethi). İstanbul: Kabalcı. Özarslan, Zeynep. (Ed). (2013a). Sinema Kuramları I. İstanbul: Su. Özarslan, Zeynep. (Ed). (2013b). Sinema Kuramları II. İstanbul: Su. Teksoy, Rekin (2005a). Rekin Teksoy'un Sinema Tarihi Birinci Cilt. İstanbul: Oğlak. Teksoy, Rekin (2005b). Rekin Teksoy'un Sinema Tarihi İkinci Cilt. İstanbul: Oğlak.