Course Information

Course Information
Course Title Code Semester L+U Hour Credits ECTS
- STV626 3 + 0 3.0 8.0
Prerequisites None
Language of Instruction Turkish
Course Level Graduate
Course Type
Mode of delivery Face to Face
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Goals This course aims to get acquainted with the first theories of cinema, which include historical aesthetic debates ranging from literature to painting and dynamic research of social sciences.
Course Content Cinema has placed it in the center of aesthetic, economic and social debates since its inception. This course is organized to meet the first studies on cinema besides historical aesthetic discussions and to give a theoretical view to cinema. Among the names that produced the first systematic thoughts on cinema, alternative perspectives that prevailed until the 1970s will be within the scope of this course.
Learning Outcomes - Understands the basis of the first discussions about the features that make cinema art.
- Recognize the historical characteristics of theoretical and critical approaches to cinema.
- Associates the economic, technological and aesthetic development of the cinema.
- It establishes the connection between social history and artistic trends with cinema theories.
Weekly Topics (Content)
Week Topics Learning Methods
1. Week Content and importance of the course: How does cinema and theory come together? Course Hours Verbal Expression
2. Week The first filmmakers, the first approaches to cinema Verbal Expression Course Hours
3. Week The specificity of the vehicle: What is your cinema? Verbal Expression Course Hours
4. Week The role of other arts in early film theories Course Hours Verbal Expression
5. Week Form or Real? Course Hours Verbal Expression
6. Week The effect of Russian formalism on cinema Course Hours Verbal Expression
7. Week Soviet assembly theorists (vertov, Pudovkin) Verbal Expression Course Hours
8. Week Midterm exam Course Hours Practice
9. Week Soviet Assembly Theorists (Eisenstein) Course Hours Verbal Expression
10. Week Italians are after the truth: Zavattini-Aristarco Verbal Expression Course Hours
11. Week Fact and camera: Andre Bazin Verbal Expression Course Hours
12. Week Fact and Camera: Krakauer Course Hours Verbal Expression
13. Week The unique of the non-unique: Benjamin Course Hours Verbal Expression
14. Week Cinema in the clamp of the Culture Industry: Adorno Verbal Expression Course Hours
15. Week FINAL Course Hours Practice
Recommended Sources
Dudley Andrew, Büyük Sinema Kuramları, Doruk Yayıncılık
Robert Stam, Sinema Teorisine Giriş, AYrıntı Yayınları
Thomas Elsaesser, Malte Hagener, Film Kuramı: Duyular Yoluyla Bir Giriş, Dipnot Yayınları
Relations with Education Attainment Program Course Competencies
Program Requirements Contribution Level DK1 DK2 DK3 DK4 Measurement Method
*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