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| Unit | ADANA VOCATIONAL SCHOOL |
| Code | RTV236 |
| Name | Film Criticism and Analysis |
| Term | 2022-2023 Academic Year |
| Semester | 4. Semester |
| Duration (T+A) | 2-0 (T-A) (17 Week) |
| ECTS | 3 ECTS |
| National Credit | 2 National Credit |
| Teaching Language | Türkçe |
| Level | Ön Lisans Dersi |
| Type | Normal |
| Label | E Elective |
| Mode of study | Yüz Yüze Öğretim |
| Catalog Information Coordinator | Öğr. Gör. Dr. BERİN YOCA |
| Course Instructor |
Öğr. Gör. Dr. BERİN YOCA
(Bahar)
(A Group)
(Ins. in Charge)
|
Course Goal / Objective
In this class students use film as an object for cultural and critical analysis. This is a basic course in film literacy, concentrating on the history, techniques, genres, theory and criticism of films. In order to analyze and to evaluate the content and form of the films, various conceptual, theoretical and analytic approaches will be visited. This will also enhance to better appreciate and express the understanding of films, along with their social and cultural mutual influence. Students are expected to produce a variety of in-class and take-home writing assignments for professional, critical and academic purposes.
Course Content
Main objective of this course is to develop the writing skills in film critique. This course aims to build-up the critical skills orally and particularly in writing to be able to evaluate the films as a whole, to discover how details, scenes and sequences serve to the whole meaning; to detect the styles and themes of the products of filmmaking; to discuss and to write about film culture. It is designed to provide the necessary tools to interpret films as collaborative art works, as technical artifacts, as sociocultural and ideological productions, and as products of a globalized media world.
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Course Learning Outcomes
| Order | Course Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|
| LO01 | Learns what criticism and analysis mean |
| LO02 | Explain the basic approaches used in film analysis, the relationship between text, artist, social environment and institutional components. |
| LO03 | Explain the purpose of film criticism and the contribution of the film critic to the art of cinema. |
| LO04 | Learns the types of film criticism and approaches used in film analysis |
| LO05 | Learns how to look at structural techniques such as cinematography, frame, composition, camera and shot scales, camera movements, lighting, depth in film analysis. |
| LO06 | Understands how the historical, social and industrial characteristics of the period it was shot are determinative in the critique of a film and that the examination of films as a cultural expression provides a better understanding of both the history of cinema |
| LO07 | Learn to read movies through creative director and style |
| LO08 | It tries to find the constant themes, commonalities, functioning and laws that determine the meaning production in a film with a structuralist analysis approach. |
| LO09 | Knows how to use formal and semiotic analysis in film analysis |
| LO10 | Learns the concepts such as consciousness, subconscious, dream, desire, suppression, displacement, reflection and knows that the psychoanalytic approach can be used to explain both the artist, the filmic text, and the audience. |
| LO11 | With a sociological approach, one can evaluate the filmic texts as a reflection of the social structure in which they are produced and examine the social conditions of the period in which they were produced or the period they deal with in their content. |
| LO12 | Explain the role of films as an ideological reproduction tool in producing the dominant ideology and how they ideologically position the audience. |
| LO13 | S / he sees how films produce signifying patterns that ensure the continuation of sexist discrimination against women and is informed about film production practices aimed at gender equalit |
| LO14 | Knows how genre is defined in art and cinema and Can examine a film generically within the framework of its narrative and visual codes. |
| LO15 | Can develop her/his own perspective on a film and analyze it |
Relation with Program Learning Outcome
| Order | Type | Program Learning Outcomes | Level |
|---|
Week Plan
| Week | Topic | Preparation | Methods |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction to the course, a general view on the art of cinema | Reseach | |
| 2 | The concept of criticism, criticism in the general sense, criticism in the fine arts | Reseach | |
| 3 | Criticism in cinema, the duties of film criticism, method in criticism | Reseach | |
| 4 | Types of criticism in cinema and methods of film criticism | Reseach | |
| 5 | The cinematography concept of criticism | Reseach | |
| 6 | Historical approach to film criticism | Reseach | |
| 7 | Auteur Criticism | Reseach | |
| 8 | Mid-Term Exam | Reseach | |
| 9 | Structuralist approach to film criticism | Reseach | |
| 10 | Semiotic approach to film criticism | Reseach | |
| 11 | Psychoanalysis and film criticism | Reseach | |
| 12 | Sociological criticism | Reseach | |
| 13 | Ideological criticsm | Reseach | |
| 14 | Introduction to feminist criticism | Reseach | |
| 15 | Generic criticism | Reseach | |
| 16 | Term Exams | Reseach | |
| 17 | Term Exams | Reseach |
Assessment (Exam) Methods and Criteria
| Assessment Type | Midterm / Year Impact | End of Term / End of Year Impact |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Midterm Exam | 100 | 20 |
| General Assessment | ||
| Midterm / Year Total | 100 | 20 |
| 1. Final Exam | - | 80 |
| Grand Total | - | 100 |
Student Workload - ECTS
| Works | Number | Time (Hour) | Workload (Hour) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Related Works | |||
| Class Time (Exam weeks are excluded) | 14 | 2 | 28 |
| Out of Class Study (Preliminary Work, Practice) | 14 | 2 | 28 |
| Assesment Related Works | |||
| Homeworks, Projects, Others | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mid-term Exams (Written, Oral, etc.) | 1 | 6 | 6 |
| Final Exam | 1 | 16 | 16 |
| Total Workload (Hour) | 78 | ||
| Total Workload / 25 (h) | 3,12 | ||
| ECTS | 3 ECTS | ||