The aim of the course is to teach students the relationship between cinema and psychology. In this context, the psychological effects of cinema on the audience, and the ways cinema makes used of psychology will be examined through film examples and articles.
Prerequisite(s)
CINEMA AND PSYCHOLOGY
Corequisite(s)
CINEMA AND PSYCHOLOGY
Special Requisite(s)
The minimum qualifications that are expected from the students who want to attend the course.(Examples: Foreign language level, attendance, known theoretical pre-qualifications, etc.)
Instructor(s)
Lecturer Dr. Selda Salman Sakızlı
Course Assistant(s)
Res. Asst. Buğra Mert Alkayalar
Schedule
Wednesday, 09:00-10:45, 1C/01
Office Hour(s)
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Teaching Methods and Techniques
To give a theoretical background through lectures, to watch films and complete homework and to discuss the films and homework in class
Principle Sources
Saffet Murat Tura, Freud’dan Lacan’a Psikanaliz, Kanat Kitap, İstanbul, 2016
Özden Terbaş, “Sine-masal Dil ve Psikanaliz Eleştiri”, Sinema ve Psikanaliz: Filmler ve Bilinçdışı, İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları, İstanbul, 2013
Luke Hockley, Film Çözümlemesinde Jungcu Yaklaşım, Es Yayınları, 2004
Todd McGowan, Sheila Kunkle, Lacan ve Çağdaş Sinema, Say Yayınları, 2014
Umut Tümay Arslan, “Aynanın Sırları: Psikanalitik Film Kuramı”, Kültür ve İletişim, 2009 12(1), Kış, s. 9-38
Other Sources
Sigmund Freud, Haz ilkesinin ötesinde – Ben ve İd, Metis Yayınları, İstanbul, 2016
Sigmund Freud, Uygarlığın Huzursuzluğu, Metis Yayınları, İstanbul, 2000
Sigmund Freud, “Uncanny”, Complete Psychological Works, Cilt XVII, s. 217-252
Jacques Lacan, Psikanalizin Dört Temel Kavramı, Metis Yayınları, İstanbul, 2013
Metz, Christian, Psychoanalysis and Cinema: The Imaginary Signifier, Macmillan, Londra, 1982
Course Schedules
Week
Contents
Learning Methods
1. Week
Examining the relationship between cinema and psychology
Oral presentation
2. Week
Discussing and evaluating the term Psychology
Oral presentation
3. Week
Discussing the Freudian approach in cinema
Oral presentation
4. Week
Discussing the Jungian approach in cinema
Oral presentation
5. Week
Film screening: Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)
Oral presentation
6. Week
Jacques Lacan
Oral presentation
7. Week
Jacques Lacan
Oral presentation
8. Week
Midterm exam
9. Week
Film screening: Pi (Darren Aranofsky,1998)
Oral presentation
10. Week
Film screening: Dark City (Alex Proyas, 1998)
Oral presentation
11. Week
Psychoanalytic film theory
Oral presentation
12. Week
Film screening: Thelma and Louise (Ridley Scott, 1991)
Oral presentation
13. Week
Overview
Oral presentation
14. Week
Final exam
15. Week
16. Week
17. Week
Assessments
Evaluation tools
Quantity
Weight(%)
Homework / Term Projects / Presentations
1
40
Final Exam
1
60
Program Outcomes
PO-1
Communication, art and culture related concepts to be priorities, all kinds of definitions can berelated to different areas.
PO-2
Interpret technological developments and related artistic and cultural perceptions
PO-3
Will be able to understand contemporary / contemporary cinema and television practices.
PO-4
Will be able to analyze the organic relationship between art, communication and society.
PO-5
Will be able to produce works that will learn the creative process and bring creativity to the foreground
PO-6
It will be able to work creatively, flexibly and independently in a disciplined and self-created line.
PO-7
Will be able to use the tools and equipment necessary for their profession in the right place and at the right time and will be able to implement their projects within the determined time.
PO-8
Will be able to express his / her creative ideas using visual messages.
PO-9
They will be able to give original products in different interdisciplinary fields like animation, photography, cinema.
PO-10
He will have experience in film management, screenplay, cinematography and editing.
PO-11
Will be able to prepare visual effects for cinema and television using computer based applications.
PO-12
He will have experience in acting, mimicry, dramatic improvisation.
PO-13
Be open to innovations in the field of mass communication and adapt to innovations in the field.
PO-14
It will be able to produce projects with experienced experts in national and international areas.
PO-15
Competitions, exhibitions, festivals, seminars etc. in national and international areas. will participate in the events.
Learning Outcomes
LO-1
Understanding of psychology
LO-2
Understanding of the Freudian approach to cinema
LO-3
Ability to make connections between psychology and cinema
LO-4
Ability to interpret psychological elements in film
