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THEORIES OF CINEMA COURSE IDENTIFICATION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION

Code Name of the Course Unit Semester In-Class Hours (T+P) Credit ECTS Credit
THY417 THEORIES OF CINEMA 5 3 3 5

WEEKLY COURSE CONTENTS AND STUDY MATERIALS FOR PRELIMINARY & FURTHER STUDY

Week Preparatory Topics(Subjects) Method
1 - What is concept? What are the emerging reason of theories in cinema? Lecture & Case Study & Discussion
2 Reading & Visual Literature Review Principal theoretical approaches in cinema: Formalist Theory Lecture & Case Study & Discussion
3 Reading & Visual Literature Review Formalist Theoretician Examples: Arnheim & sample film analysis Lecture & Case Study & Discussion
4 Reading & Visual Literature Review Russian Theoreticians: Eisenstein & sample film analysis Lecture & Case Study & Discussion
5 Reading & Visual Literature Review Realist Theory and Siegfried Kracauer & sample film analysis Lecture & Case Study & Discussion
6 Reading & Visual Literature Review Auteur Theory & sample film analysis Lecture & Case Study & Discussion
7 Reading & Visual Literature Review Constructivist Approach and Semiotic Cinema Theory & sample film analysis Lecture & Case Study & Discussion
8 - MID-TERM EXAM -
9 Reading & Visual Literature Review Christian Metz and Umberto Eco & sample film analysis Lecture & Case Study & Discussion
10 Reading & Visual Literature Review Feminist Film Theory & sample film analysis Lecture & Case Study & Discussion
11 Reading & Visual Literature Review Psychoanalysis and Cinema Freud & sample film analysis Lecture & Case Study & Discussion
12 Reading & Visual Literature Review Lacan and Jung’s adapting psychanalysis into cinema Lecture & Case Study & Discussion
13 Reading & Visual Literature Review Postcolonial Cinema Approaches & sample film analysis Lecture & Case Study & Discussion
14 Reading & Visual Literature Review Postmodern Approaches & sample film analysis Lecture & Case Study & Discussion
15 Reading & Visual Literature Review General Evaluation Lecture & Case Study & Discussion
16 - FINAL EXAM -
17 - FINAL EXAM -