COURSE UNIT TITLE

: HOLLYWOOD HISTORY AND GENRES OF MAINSTREAM CINEMA

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FBS 3310 HOLLYWOOD HISTORY AND GENRES OF MAINSTREAM CINEMA ELECTIVE 2 0 0 2

Offered By

Film Design and Directing

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR DILAVER BAYINDIR

Offered to

Performance Arts
Accessory Design
Play Writing-Dramaturgy
Stage Design
Animation Film Design and Directing
Film Design and Directing
Carpet Kilim Old Fabric Patterns
Ceramic and Glass Design
Illustration and Printmaking
Painting
Musicology
Sculpture
Photography
Sound Editing and Cinematography
Ancient Turkish Calligraphy
Textile Design
Film Design and Screenwriting
Restorations of Ancient Tile
Fashion Clothing Design
Graphic Design
Music Technology

Course Objective

From it's first days Hollywood cinema affected all national cinemas of the world and let there exist a film style called mainstream cinema. thus the narrative that is solely belongs to Hollywood determines the audience anticipation and perception. the objective of the course is to analyse the genres of Hollywood and mainstream cinema and study their idological and political aspects.. If the Hollywood cinema is an IMPACT on other national cinema styles, these styles gave birth to different RESPONSES. therefore, to understand these responses broadly, the students have to understand the impact that creates repsonses.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   to comprehend the major ideological respects of Hollywood cinema
2   to gain the ability to determine the historical relations between mainstream cinema genres and Hollywood cinema
3   to gain the ability to determine de socio-cultural, politics and ideological connections of the era that the Hollywood films represent
4   to comprehend the contradictions and conflicts between the conceptions of Hollywood and non-Hollywood cinema / mainstream and non-mainstream cinema
5   to comprehend the connections between, at least on a periodic basis, global history and US history.
6   to gain knowledge about the historical necesitties that creates modern cinema.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to the course.
2 From the birth of the cinema to the 1910's: New York and trust
3 Hollywood 1910's: Escafe to Hollywood
4 Hollywood 1920's: An industry growing / Roaring Twenties
5 Hollywood 1930's I: Hollywood in depression / Production Code (Hays Code) as the code of censorship
6 Hollywood 1930's II: Hollywood surrenders / Production Code administration
7 Hollywood 1940's I: Studio System
8 Hollywood 1940's II: II World War / Film Noir as parables of corrections
9 Midterm Exam
10 Hollywood 1950's: Paranoid Hollywood / McCarthy Era - Sci-Fi Films
11 Hollywood 1960's: Hollywood the Free / independent cinema
12 Hollywood 1970's: Hollywood transforms / individualist hero films
13 Hollywood 1980's: Conservative Hollywood / hero films
14 Hollywood 1990's and beyond: Tecnique tour-de-force / Phantasia films

Recomended or Required Reading

Politik Film, Ayrıntı Yayınları, 2010.
Dünya Sinema Tarihi, Kabalcı yayınları, 2003.
Film Sanatı, Deki Yayınları, 2012.
Film, Biçim ve Kültür, Deki Yayınları.
ABD Tarihi, Doğu Batı yayınları, 2005.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

At the course, Hollywood cinema will be studied on decade system. sometimes the students will watch some Hollywood films.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + RST * 0.60

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 2 28
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 1 14
Preparation for midterm exam 1 5 5
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 59

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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LO.1
LO.2111
LO.33311
LO.43
LO.53
LO.611

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