FACULTY OF COMMUNICATION
Department of Cinema and Digital Media
CDM 305 | Course Introduction and Application Information
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Turkish Cinema
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Code
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Semester
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Theory
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Application/Lab
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Local Credits
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ECTS
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CDM 305
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Fall/Spring
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3
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0
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3
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4
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| Prerequisites |
None
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| Course Language |
English
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| Course Type |
Service Course
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| Course Level |
First Cycle
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| Mode of Delivery | Online | |||||
| Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course | - | |||||
| Course Coordinator | - | |||||
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| Course Objectives | To introduce the students the emergence and transformation of the film industry in Turkey from a historical perspective |
| Learning Outcomes |
The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Description | The course will include the following topics and related discussions: Historical development and transformation of the film industry in Turkey, leading filmmakers and their films, identity, politics and transnationalism issues, major debates on the history of cinema in Turkey. ACADEMIC CAUTION Academic honesty: Plagiarism, copying, cheating, purchasing essays/projects, presenting some one else’s work as your own and all sorts of literary theft is considered academic dishonesty. Under the rubric of İzmir University of Economics Faculty of Communication, all forms of academic dishonesty are considered as crime and end in disciplinary interrogation. According to YÖK’s Student Discipline Regulation, the consequence of cheating or attempting to cheat is 6 to 12 months expulsion. Having been done intentionally or accidentally does not change the punitive consequences of academic dishonesty. Academic honesty is each student’s own responsibility. Plagiarism is the most common form of academic dishonesty. According to the MerriamWebster Online Dictionary, to plagiarize means to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one’s own. The easiest and most effective way to prevent plagiarism is to give reference when using someone else’s ideas, and to use quotation marks when using someone else’s exact words. A detailed informative guideline regarding plagiarism can be found here. |
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Core Courses | |
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| Supportive Courses |
X
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WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATION STUDIES
| Week | Subjects | Related Preparation |
| 1 | Introduction | |
| 2 | How to approach to the history of “Turkish national cinema”? Bullfight in Spain, Lumiere Brothers Napoleon, Abel Gance Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat, Lumiere Brothers World Cinema, Coen Brothers, 2007. | Dilek Kaya Mutlu, “The Russian Monument at Ayastefanos (San Stefano): Between Defeat and Revenge, Remembering and Forgetting”, Middle East Studies 43:1 (2007); Savaş Arslan, “Introduction”, in Cinema in Turkey: A New Critical History, Oxford University Press: 2011. |
| 3 | Production and movie-going in Turkey before 1950 Aysel Bataklı Damın Kızı, Muhsin Ertuğrul (1935) Kahveci Güzeli, Muhsin Ertuğrul (1941) | Nezih Erdoğan “The Spectator in the Making: Modernity and Cinema in Istanbul, 1896-1928” in Orienting Istanbul: Cultural Capital of Europe? Deniz Göktürk, Levent Soysal and İpek Türeli (eds.), Routledge: 2010; Savaş Arslan “Pre-Yeşilçam: Cinema in Turkey until the Late 1940s”, in Cinema in Turkey: A New Critical History, Oxford University Press: 2011. |
| 4 | Early masters of a late industry: The “cinema artists” generation Kanun Namına, Lütfi Akad (1952) Düşman Yolları Kesti, Osman Seden (1959) | Savaş Arslan, “Early Yeşilçam: The Advent of Yeşilçam in the 1950s” in Cinema in Turkey: A New Critical History, Oxford University Press: 2011; Alim Şerif Onaran, “I. Bölüm (1916-1962)” in Lütfi Ö. Akad, Afa: 1990. |
| 5 | Movements and waves: Social realism, new realism and national cinema Susuz Yaz, Metin Erksan (1963) Bir Türk’e Gönül Verdim, Halit Refiğ (1969) Umut, Yılmaz Güney (1970) | Kurtuluş Kayalı, Metin Erksan Sinemasını Okumayı Denemek, Dost: 2004, pp. 77-90; Halit Refiğ, “En Doğru Yargılayıcı Tarihtir” in Ulusal Sinema Kavgası, Dergâh: 2009. |
| 6 | Yeşilçam I: Production and distribution Samanyolu, Orhan Aksoy (1967) Umut Dünyası, Safa Önal (1973) Aşk Filmlerinin Unutulmaz Yönetmeni, Yavuz Turgul (1990) | Nilgün Abisel, “Türk Sinemasında Film Yapımı Üzerine Notlar” in Türk Sineması Üzerine Yazılar, Phoenix: 2005; Nezih Erdoğan, “Yeşilçam’da Beden ve Mekânın Eklemlenmesi Üzerine Notlar”, Doğu Batı 2 (1998). |
| 7 | Yeşilçam II: Genres and narration Hıçkırık, Orhan Aksoy (1965) Kilink İstanbul’da, Yılmaz Atadeniz (1967) Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam, Çetin İnanç (1982) | Nezih Erdoğan, “Narratives of Resistance: National Identity and Ambivalance in the Turkish Melodrama between 1965 and 1975”, Screen 39:3 (1998); Paul Willemen, “The Zoom in Popular Cinema: A Question of Performance”, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (2013). |
| 8 | Review of midterm papers | |
| 9 | Migration and urbanization Gurbet Kuşları, Halit Refiğ (1964) Gelin, Lütfi Akad (1973) Sultan, Kartal Tibet (1978) Güneşi Gördüm, Mahsun Kırmızıgül (2009) | Gönül Dönmez-Colin, “Migration, Dis/Misplacement and Exile”, in Turkish Cinema: Identity, Distance and Belonging, Reaktion Books: 2008. |
| 10 | Political cinema Yol, Yılmaz Güney (1981) Güneşe Yolculuk, Yeşim Ustaoğlu (1998) | (Court documents and censorship reports) |
| 11 | Women and gender Vurun Kahpeye, Orhan Aksoy (1964) Dul Bir Kadın, Atıf Yılmaz (1985) Zenne, Caner Alper and Mehmet Binay (2011) | Gönül Dönmez-Colin, “Gender, Sexuality and Morals in Transition”, in Turkish Cinema: Identity, Distance and Belonging, Reaktion Books: 2008. |
| 12 | New Turkish Cinema(s) I İstanbul Kanatlarımın Altında, Mustafa Altıoklar (1996) Üçüncü Sayfa, Zeki Demirkubuz (1998) Vizontele, Yılmaz Erdoğan ve Ömer Faruk Sorak (2000) | Zahit Atam, “Critical Thoughts on the New Turkish Cinema”, in Cinema and Politics: Turkish Cinema and the New Europe, edited by Deniz Bayrakdar, Cambridge Scholars Publishing: 2009. |
| 13 | New Turkish Cinema(s) II Korkuyorum Anne, Reha Erdem (2004) Bal, Semih Kaplanoğlu (2009) 3 Maymun, Nuri Bilge Ceylan (2008) | Asuman Süner, “Horror of a Different Kind: Dissonant Voices of the New Turkish Cinema”, Screen 45:4 (2004). |
| 14 | Cinema in Turkey in times of mobility and transnationalism Mercedes Mon Amour, Tunç Okan (1987) Pazar: Bir Ticaret Masalı, Ben Hopkins (2007) Auf Der Anderen Seite, Fatih Akın (2007) | Nejat Ulusay, “A Transformational Experience within the Contexts of ‘National’ and ‘Transnational’: The Case of Turkish Cinema”, in Imaginaries Out of Place: Cinema, Transnationalism and Turkey, Gökçen Karanfil and Serkan Şavk (eds.), Cambridge Scholars Publishing: 2012; Deniz Bayrakdar “Introduction: ‘Son of Turks’ claim: ‘I’m a child of European Cinema”, in Cinema and Politics: Turkish Cinema and the New Europe, edited by Deniz Bayrakdar, Cambridge Scholars Publishing: 2009. |
| 15 | Evaluation of the term | |
| 16 | Review of the Semester |
| Course Notes/Textbooks | Weekly reading materials. |
| Suggested Readings/Materials | Umut Tümay Arslan, Mazi Kabrinin Hortlakları: Türklük, Melankoli ve Sinema, Metis: 2010. |
EVALUATION SYSTEM
| Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
| Participation |
1
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10
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| Laboratory / Application | ||
| Field Work | ||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | ||
| Portfolio | ||
| Homework / Assignments |
4
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90
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| Presentation / Jury | ||
| Project | ||
| Seminar / Workshop | ||
| Oral Exams | ||
| Midterm | ||
| Final Exam | ||
| Total |
| Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade |
60
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| Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade |
40
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| Total |
ECTS / WORKLOAD TABLE
| Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
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| Theoretical Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) |
16
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3
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48
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| Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: '.16.' x total hours) |
16
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0
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| Study Hours Out of Class |
16
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3
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48
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| Field Work |
0
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| Quizzes / Studio Critiques |
0
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| Portfolio |
0
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| Homework / Assignments |
4
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6
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24
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| Presentation / Jury |
0
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| Project |
0
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| Seminar / Workshop |
0
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| Oral Exam |
0
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| Midterms |
0
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| Final Exam |
0
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| Total |
120
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COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS RELATIONSHIP
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Program Competencies/Outcomes |
* Contribution Level
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1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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| 1 | To be able to have fundamental knowledge about narrative forms in cinema, digital and interactive media, and the foundational concepts relevant to these forms. |
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| 2 | To be able to create narratives based on creative and critical thinking skills, by using the forms and tools of expression specific to cinema and digital media arts. |
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| 3 | To be able to use the technical equipment and software required for becoming a specialist/expert in cinema and digital media. |
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| 4 | To be able to perform skills such as scriptwriting, production planning, use of the camera, sound recording, lighting and editing, at the basic level necessary for pre-production, production and post-production phases of an audio-visual work; and to perform at least one of them at an advanced level. |
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| 5 | To be able to discuss how meaning is made in cinema and digital media; how economy, politics and culture affect regimes of representation; and how processes of production, consumption, distribution and meaning-making shape narratives. |
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| 6 | To be able to perform the special technical and aesthetic skills at the basic level necessary to create digital media narratives in the fields of interactive film, video installation, experimental cinema and virtual reality. |
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| 7 | To be able to critically analyze a film or digital media artwork from technical, intellectual and artistic perspectives. |
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| 8 | To be able to participate in the production of a film or digital media artwork as a member or leader of a team, following the principles of work safety and norms of ethical behavior. |
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| 9 | To be able to stay informed about global scientific, social, economic, cultural, political, institutional and industrial developments. |
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| 10 | To be able to develop solutions to legal, scientific and professional problems surrounding the field of cinema and digital media. |
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| 11 | To be able to use a foreign language to communicate with colleagues and collect data in the field of cinema and digital media. ("European Language Portfolio Global Scale", Level B1). |
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| 12 | To be able to use a second foreign language at the medium level. |
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| 13 | To be able to connect the knowledge accumulated throughout human history to the field of expertise. |
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*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest
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