INTERMEDIAL AND TRANSMEDIAL NARRATIVE FROM POEM TO GAME

FİLM510

Course Code: FİLM510
Semester: -
Theory+Practice: 3 + 0
ECTS: 10

Course Type

Elective Course

Course Level

Master's Degree With Thesis

Year of Study

Semester

ECTS

Name of Lecturer(s)

Assistant Professor Ali Çağıl Ömerbaş

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the students;

Learn and effectively use concepts related to narratives.
Explain the core concepts and historical development process of narratives across different media.
Compare narrative theories and theorists from Aristotle to the present day.

Mode of Delivery

Face to face

Prerequisites

Recommended Optional Programme Components

Course Description

Within the scope of this course, storytelling techniques and how narratives have changed throughout history will be addressed within the framework of narratology. By specifically focusing on different types of stories in games and other interactive media, the points of similarity and divergence from traditional narratives will be examined. The focus will be on the distinction between linear, branching, and emergent narratives, the definition of hybrid narratives, and new forms of creating persuasive storytelling. Storytelling techniques used in various narrative genres such as film, theater, novels, and comics will be analyzed through the works of philosophers and researchers from different disciplines, including Aristotle, Campbell, Todorov, Propp, Genette, Murray, Aarseth, and Eskelinen.

Course Contents

WEEK	TOPICS
1^st Week	Introduction: The Meaning of Narrative
2^nd Week	Aristotle and Poetics
3^rd Week	Todorov and Narrative Structure
4^th Week	Propp?s Narrative Functions, Levi-Strauss and Binary Oppositions, Barthes?s Narrative Codes
5^th Week	The Novel, Romanticism, Modernism, and Postmodernism
6^th Week	Contemporary Narrative Interpretations
7^th Week	Narrative in Literature
8^th Week	Narrative in Plastic Arts and Photography
9^th Week	Narrative in Theater and Performance Arts
10^th Week	Narrative in Cinema
11^th Week	Hypertexts and Interactive Narratives
12^th Week	Computer Games I
13^th Week	Computer Games II
14^th Week	Presentations
15^th Week

Recommended or Required Reading

Aarseth, E. (2001). Computer game studies, year one. Game studies, 1(1), 1-15.
Eskelinen, M. (2001a). Towards computer game studies. Digital creativity, 12(3), 175-183.
Jenkins, H. (2004). Game Design as narrative architecture. First person: New media as story, performance, and game, 44, 118.
Wardrip-Fruin, N. & Harrigan, P. (Eds.). (2004). First person: New media as story, performance, and game. Mit Press.
Eskelinen, M. (2012). Cybertext poetics: the critical landscape of new media literary theory. Continuum.
Murray, J. (2016). Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace, Updated ed. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Zimmerman, E. (2004). Narrative, interactivity, play, and games: Four naughty concepts in need of discipline. First person: New media as story, performance, and game, 154.
Deleuze, G.; Guattari, F. (1987). A Thousand Plateaus. Translated by Massumi, Brian. University of Minnesota Press.
LaFrance, A. (2016). The Six Main Arcs in Storytelling, as Identified by an A.I. The Atlantic. [https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/07/the-six-main-arcs-in-storytelling-identified-by-a-computer/490733/] [11.02.2026 tarihinde erişildi]
Aarseth, E. J. (1997). Cybertext: Perspectives on ergodic literature. JHU Press.
Andersen, P. B., & Andersen, P. B. (1990). A theory of computer semiotics: Semiotic approaches to construction and assessment of computer systems (No. 3). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Eskelinen, M. (2001b). The Gaming Situation. Game studies, 1(1).
Aristotle. (2013). Poetics (A. Kenny, Trans.). Oxford University Press.
Genette, G. (1980). Narrative discourse: An essay in method (J. E. Lewin, Trans.). Cornell University Press.
Bordwell, D., Thompson, K., & Smith, J. (2008). Film art: An introduction (Vol. 7). New York: McGraw-Hill.
Lacey, Nick. Narrative and Genre. Palgrave, 2000.
Barthes, Roland. Image Music Text. Trans. by Stephen Heath. New York: Hill and Wang, 1977.
Sontag, S. (2003). Regarding the pain of others. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Berger, J. (2008). Ways of seeing. Penguin uK.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture
Questions/Answers
Discussion
Practice
Presentation
Project

Assessment Methods and Criteria

	Quantity	Percentage (%)
Mid-term	1	30
Total(%)		30
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%)		30
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%)		70
Total(%)		100

ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload

Activities	Quantity	Duration (Hour)	Total Workload (Hour)
Midterm exam
Preparation for Quiz
Individual or group work	1	70	70
Preparation for Final exam	1	50	50
Course hours	14	3	42
Preparation for Midterm exam
Laboratory (including preparation)
Final exam	1	3	3
Homework	7	10	70
Literature review	1	45	45
Total Work Load			280
Total Work Load / 30 (h)			9.33
ECTS Credit of the Course			10

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

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