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Radio, Television and Cinema
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Introduction to Cinema

Course CodeSemester Course Name LE/RC/LA Course Type Language of Instruction ECTS
MRT0011 Introduction to Cinema 2/1/0 DE 3
Course Goals
 In the context of this course, the basic approaches to film theory up until today will be examined with the use of the basic articles. The theories will be further exemplified through the screening of films and the homework given within the course will help fortify the theoretical knowledge of the student.
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Instructor(s) Lecturer Selin Okumuş
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Schedule The course is not offered this semester.
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Teaching Methods and Techniques It was planned as formal, but after the developments in the pandemic process, it was decided to continue the theoretical part of the course with the Digital Distance Education method within the framework of the recommendations of YÖK. The theoretical part of the course will be supported by sectoral E-Webinars that will be given in the Spring Semester with 100% Asynchronous and Synchronous enriched digital method and CATs V3.0 interface. According to the developments in the pandemic process and the senate, the curriculum and duration of the theoretical courses given with CATs V3.0 Digital Distance Education will be given by the diluted [accelerated] hybrid formal method through the optional appointment method. The practical parts of the course will be given by the Digital Distance Education method, according to the developments in the pandemic process of the applications that cannot be given and according to the senate, diluted [accelerated] hybrid and / or the formal method in the last semester of the Spring Semester through the optional appointment method over the CATs V3.0 system in the Spring Semester. will be given with.
Principle Sources  

Sanat Olarak Sinema, Rudolf Arnheim, Hil, İstanbul, 2010.

Sinema Nedir, Andre Bazin, Doruk Yayınları, İstanbul, 2011.

J.Dudley Andrew, Sinema Kuramları,  İzdüşüm Yayınları, 2000

Seçil Büker, Y. Gürhan Topçu (Der.), Sinema: Tarih-Kuram-Eleştiri, Kırmızı Kedi Yayınevi, İstanbul, 2010.

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Course Schedules
Week Contents Learning Methods
1. Week Introductory class, introduction to film theory Digital Education
2. Week Russian formalism: Soviet montage: Eisenstein, Pudovkin, Vertov Digital Education
3. Week Realism in Cinema: Siegfried Kracauer, Andre Bazin Digital Education
4. Week Film screening and evaluation of theories Digital Education
5. Week Auteur theory: Discussions on Cahiers du Cinéma, Peter Wollen and Andrew Sarris Digital Education
6. Week Film Screening and evaluation of Auteur theory Digital Education
7. Week Midterm Exam
8. Week Semiotics: Jean Mitry, Christian Mitz, Peter Wollen Digital Education
9. Week Cinema and psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Laura Mulvey Digital Education
10. Week Cinema and psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Laura Mulvey Digital Education
11. Week Post-colonial cinema and identity Digital Education
12. Week Film screening and evaluation of post-colonial cinema Digital Education
13. Week Film screening and evaluation of post-colonial cinema Digital Education
14. Week Film screening and evaluation on political cinema Digital Education
15. Week Final Exam
16. Week Final Exam
17. Week Final Exam
Assessments
Evaluation tools Quantity Weight(%)
Midterm(s) 1 20
Final Exam 1 80


Program Outcomes
PO-1To define all information needed to learn at communication and information field.
PO-2To learn all basic concepts about their future career
PO-3Get the ability to use theoretical information in practical bussiness life.
PO-4To represent and defind clearly their project.
PO-5Using camera, lighting equipment, audio equipment professional way both indoor or outdoor.
PO-6To have a clear visual language to impress spectator.
PO-7To have enough skill about radio and tv producing, broadcasting and management.
PO-8To have enough skill to create efficient project at audio visual field
PO-9To have a responsability, morality about bussiness life.
PO-10To have ability to work with others, being social and available for team works.
PO-11To have the ability about project creation and management
PO-12To have enough skill to demonstrate their project.
PO-13To understand life time education's importance and being open all technical and social improvement.
PO-14To have enough interest about actual social and cultural life
PO-15To learn at least 1 foreign language.
Learning Outcomes
LO-1Ability to evaluate and make links between differing theoretical approaches in cinema
LO-2Examining and critiquing the basic film theories of formalism and realism
LO-3The reinforcement of theoretical knowledge through film analysis
LO-4The equivalents of structuralism and post-structuralism in cinema and the analysis of them through examples
LO-5The ability to evaluate popular cinema and art cinema through different theories
Course Assessment Matrix:
Program Outcomes - Learning Outcomes Matrix
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