Course Information

Course Information
Course Title Code Semester L+U Hour Credits ECTS
- STV627 3 + 0 3.0 8.0
Prerequisites None
Language of Instruction Turkish
Course Level Graduate
Course Type
Mode of delivery face to face
Course Coordinator
Instructor(s)
Assistants
Goals The aim of this course is to reveal the relationship between cinema, media and politics from the date of emergence of media and cinema to the present day.
Course Content In this course, where the boundaries of the relationship between cinema, media and politics will be explained, the concepts of cinema and politics, popular culture and world politics, political films and world politics, poverty, war, race, the Cold War, gender, and propaganda issues will be examined in terms of how they appear in cinema, television, press and advertising texts.
Learning Outcomes - It relates the problems and important issues experienced in the world to movies. It shapes the relationship between culture and politics. It relates different perspectives to the events that happened.
- Can evaluate the relationship between cinema and politics. Can evaluate political life through cinema. Can interpret the relationships between ideology, power and knowledge. Can analyze how there is a relationship between the economy-politics of power and media.
- Relates and analyzes democracy and public sphere debates with the media. Lists the problems related to the representation of ethnic minorities in the media. Critically interprets the positioning of gender in the media.
- Comments on the transformation in media with the development of communication technologies. Comments on the way wars are covered in the media today.
Weekly Topics (Content)
Week Topics Learning Methods
1. Week Introduction of courses and topics Course Hours Preparation, After Class Study Research Verbal Expression
2. Week Media Culture and Ideology Verbal Expression Course Hours Preparation, After Class Study Research
3. Week Political Economy of Power and Media Course Hours Preparation, After Class Study Research Verbal Expression
4. Week Relationship between cinema and politics, propaganda cinema Research Verbal Expression Course Hours Preparation, After Class Study
5. Week Colonialism, cinema and media Course Hours Research Verbal Expression Preparation, After Class Study
6. Week Media, Democracy and Public Sphere Research Verbal Expression Preparation, After Class Study Course Hours
7. Week Nation Building and Cinema Course Hours Preparation, After Class Study Research Verbal Expression
8. Week Midterms Practice Preparation, After Class Study Research Course Hours
9. Week Media and the Construction of Gender Communication, Technology and Politics Research Verbal Expression Course Hours Preparation, After Class Study
10. Week War and cinema Course Hours Preparation, After Class Study Verbal Expression Research
11. Week Cinema and cultural imperialism, war and media Course Hours Preparation, After Class Study Verbal Expression Research
12. Week Popular culture and cinema Course Hours Preparation, After Class Study Research Verbal Expression
13. Week Postmodern Politics and Media Preparation, After Class Study Course Hours Research Verbal Expression
14. Week General evaluation Course Hours Preparation, After Class Study Research Verbal Expression
15. Week Finals Course Hours Preparation, After Class Study Research Practice
Recommended Sources
Deniz Bayrakdar (ed.), Cinema and Politics: Turkish Cinema and The New Europe, 2009.
Gül Yaşartürk, Ve Sinema, Doruk Yayınları, 2013.
Philip M. Taylor, Munitions of the Mind : A history of propaganda from the ancient world to the present era, Manchester University Press, 2003.
Roy Armes, Üçüncü Dünya Sineması ve Batı, İstanbul, Doruk yayınları, 2011.
Oğuz Adanır, Sinema, Televizyon Kültür, Hayalperest Yayınevi, 2012.
Relations with Education Attainment Program Course Competencies
Program Requirements Contribution Level DK1 DK2 DK3 DK4 Measurement Method
PY1 4 4 4 4 4 40,60
PY2 4 4 4 4 4 40,60
PY3 4 4 4 4 4 40,60
PY4 4 4 4 4 4 40,60
PY5 4 4 4 4 4 40,60
PY6 4 4 4 4 4 40,60
PY7 4 4 4 4 4 40,60
PY8 4 4 4 4 4 40,60
PY9 4 4 4 4 4 40,60
PY10 4 4 4 4 4 40,60
PY11 4 4 4 4 4 40,60
*DK = Course's Contrubution.
0 1 2 3 4 5
Course's Level of contribution None Very Low Low Fair High Very High
Method of assessment/evaluation Written exam Oral Exams Assignment/Project Laboratory work Presentation/Seminar
ECTS credits and course workload
Event Quantity Duration (Hour) Total Workload (Hour)
Course Hours 15 3 45
Verbal Expression 2 1 2
Visual Presentation 2 1 2
Midterm 1 1 2 2
Homework 1 10 5 50
Homework 2 10 5 50
Quiz 1 10 5 50
Final 1 3 3
Total Workload 204
ECTS Credit of the Course 8.0