Information Package
baskent.edu.tr

Program of Film Design and Directing

FİLM213

WORLD CINEMA I

Course Code
FİLM213
Semester
Third Term (Fall)
Theory+Practice
3 + 0
ECTS
4
Course TypeCompulsory Course
Course LevelBachelor's Degree
Year of Study2
SemesterThird Term (Fall)
ECTS4
Name of Lecturer(s)
Learning Outcomes

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 DeliveryFace to face
PrerequisitesNo
Recommended Optional Programme Components
Course DescriptionThe 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
Recommended or Required ReadingAbisel, 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.
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
  • Lecture
  • Questions/Answers
  • Viewing
  • Discussion
  • Other
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Quantity Percentage (%)
Mid-term 1 40
Attendance 1 10
Total(%) 50
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) 50
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) 50
Total(%) 100
ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload
Activities Quantity Duration (Hour) Total Workload (Hour)
Midterm exam 1 2 2
Preparation for Quiz
Individual or group work
Preparation for Final exam 1 40 40
Course hours 14 3 42
Preparation for Midterm exam 1 35 35
Laboratory (including preparation)
Final exam 1 2 2
Homework
Presentation (including preperation)
Project
Field Research
Research
Preperation for Presentations
Total Work Load121
Total Work Load / 30 (h)4.03
ECTS Credit of the Course4
Language of InstructionTurkish
Work Placement(s)No

Programme Qualifications / Learning Outcomes

LO1 LO2 LO3
K1 X X X
K2 X X X
K3
K4
K5
K6
K7 X X X
K8 X X X
K9
K10
K11 X X X
K12
K13
K14
K15
K16
K17
K18 X X X
K19
K20 X X X
K21
K22
K23 X X X
K24
K25 X X X