COURSE UNIT TITLE

: FILM ANALYSIS I

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FTS 4301 FILM ANALYSIS I COMPULSORY 2 2 0 4

Offered By

Film Design and Screenwriting

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR DILEK TUNALI

Offered to

Cinema and Television
Film Design and Screenwriting

Course Objective

Analysis of different film genres with respect to aesthetics, structure, form and context. It is aimed to conceptualise the film language with textual analysis related to practically chosen films from different concepts ; and to internalise the subject concerned with the help of various theoretical readings, analysis and seminar works through films.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Conceptualise the film language,
2   Conceptualise the search of meaning through filmic image,
3   Conceptualise the relationship of semiotics, structuralism, psychoanalyses, sociology and cultural anthropology with cinema,
4   Research the relationship between intertextuality and cinema,
5   Make a remark on a film analysis text.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Concept of analysis and its history
2 Concept of analysis and its history
3 First steps in film analysis
4 Sample review to "first steps in film analysis"
5 Sample review to "first steps in film analysis"
6 Relationship of film theories and reviews
7 Relationship of film theories and reviews
8 Relationship of film theories and reviews
9 Relationship of film theories and reviews
10 Relationship of film theories and reviews
11 A review of a film sample
12 A review of a film sample
13 Semiotic and film analsysis
14 Intertextuality and film analysis

Recomended or Required Reading

La Struttura Assente ( The Absent Structure)-Umberto Eco
Pleasure of Text- Roland Barthes
How to Read a Film-James Monaco
Literary Theory- Terry Eagleton
Intertextual Relations-Kubilay Aktulun
L enonciation impersonnelle, ou, Le site du film-Christian Metz
The Semiotic Challenge -Roland Barthes

The aesthetics and psychology of the cinema-Jean Mitry
Psychoanalysis Freud to Lacan-Saffet Murat Tura
Cinema and Psychoanalysis-Burak Bakır
Interperents of Dreams-Sigmund Freud

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Verbal lecutre, analysis through samples, homework, presentation.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.20 + ASG * 0.20 + FIN * 0.60
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.20 + ASG * 0.20 + 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)
Case study 13 2 26
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 1 13
Preparation for midterm exam 1 5 5
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparing presentations 1 5 5
Midterm 1 4 4
Final 1 4 4
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 93

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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