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Master's of Radio, Television and Cinema with Thesis

RTS544

MEMORY AND FILM ESSAY WORKSHOP

Course Code
RTS544
Semester
-
Theory+Practice
3 + 0
ECTS
10
Course TypeElective Course
Course LevelMaster's Degree With Thesis
Year of Study-
Semester-
ECTS10
Name of Lecturer(s)
Learning Outcomes

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 DeliveryFace to face
PrerequisitesNo
Recommended Optional Programme ComponentsNone.
Course DescriptionThis 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
Recommended or Required ReadingAlter, 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 InstructionTurkish
Work Placement(s)No

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