RTST723 New Cinema History

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Course Goal / Objective

The aim of this course is to look at the past -again- through cinema spaces, cinema memories, the act of going to the movies and the experience of watching them, based on the New Cinema History approach. The New Cinema History approach is a set of propositions and methods that became widespread in the 2000s in order to overcome the problems of mainstream film-centered historiography. This approach aims to discuss cinema through the experience of the audience in front of the movie screen. For this reason, the approach focuses on screening practices, cinema spaces, the experience of going to the cinema and the spectacle. Although there are similar approaches within traditional communication or sociology of cinema that prioritize the cinema industry, the New Cinema History uses theories, concepts, and methods from the humanities and social sciences and places the experience of going to the cinema at the center of both historical and contemporary studies. The New Cinema History approach proposes new sources such as screening programs, cinema newsletters, local archives, cinema magazines or literary texts for this research with different contexts; oral history and microhistory studies of screening venues and the experience of going to the cinema; and innovative approaches and methods such as mapping and routing, which are very different from traditional historiographical tools such as computational analysis, databases and GIS. Based on this approach, the aim of this course is to look at the history(s) of cinema by focusing on the spectacle, the experience of going to the cinema, cinema spaces, film screening and distribution activities and to develop theoretical and methodological discussions in this context.

Course Content

World cinema as a concept, local, national and international cinemas and movie theaters, periods and movements in cinema, film manifestos, film festivals and interactions, recent debates and new trends in world cinema.

Course Precondition

none

Resources

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Notes

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