RTST710 Methods in Cinema Research

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Course Goal / Objective

The main topics of the course include formal analysis of a film or a director's filmography or films gathered together for a specific investigation, as well as contextual analysis methods that include historical, social, cultural, philosophical, ideological and similar background(s), intertextual relations, stars as social and cultural phenomena, well-known people or the film industry with its economic and technological dimensions, and research methods on the cinema audience, taking into account the contextual dimension of the film narrative.

Course Content

The content of this course includes the study of the history of cinema in the context of economic, political, cultural, social, technological, etc. transformations; the formal and contextual analysis of films; the study of the cinema audience or audiences and/or the study of cinema experiences.

Course Precondition

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Resources

Bowles, K. (2009). Limit of maps? Locality and cinema-going in Australia. Media International Australia, 131(1), 83-94. Hoyt, E. (2022). Ink-Stained Hollywood: The Triumph of American Cinema’s Trade Press. University of California Press. Hoyt, E. (2014). Lenses for lantern: Data mining, visualization, and excavating film history's neglected sources. Film History: An International Journal, 26(2), 146-168. Hoyt, E., Ponto, K., & Roy, C. (2014). Visualizing and Analyzing the Hollywood Screenplay with ScripThreads. DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly, 8(4). Hoyt, E., Tran, T., Long, D., Hughes, K., & Ponto, K. (2018). Searching, Mining, and Interpreting Media History’s Big Data. In The Routledge Companion to Media Studies and Digital Humanities (pp. 413-422). Routledge. Verhoeven, D., Bowles, K., & Arrowsmith, C. (2009). Mapping the movies. reflections on the use of geospatial technologies for historical cinema audience research (pp. 69-82). transcript.

Notes

Barsam, R. M., & Monahan, D. (2010). Looking at Movies: An Introduction to Film (3. Baskı). Londra: W. W. Norton & Company Ltd. Biltereyst, D., & Meers, P. (2018). Film, cinema and reception studies: Revisiting research on audience’s filmic and cinematic experiences. In E. Di Giovanni & Y. Gambier (Eds.), Reception Studies and Audiovisual Translation (pp. 21–42). John Benjamins Publishing Company. Bordwell, D. (2006). The Way Hollywood Tells it: Story and Style in Modern Movies. California: University of California Press. Corrigan, T., & White, P. (2012). The Film Experience: An Introduction (3. Baskı). Boston & New York: Bedford / St. Martin’s. Elsaesser, T., & Buckland, W. (2002). Studying Contemporary American Film: A Guide to Movie Analysis. New York: Oxford University Press. Gregory, I. N., & Geddes, A. (Eds.). (2014). Toward Spatial Humanities: Historical GIS and Spatial History. Indiana University Press. Hallam, J., & Roberts, L. (2011). Mapping, memory and the city: Archives, databases and film historiography. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 14(3), 355–372. Klenotic, J. (2011). Using GIS to Explore the Spatiality of Cinema. In R. Maltby, D. Biltereyst, & P. Meers (Eds.), Explorations in New Cinema History: Approaches and Case Studies (pp. 58–84). Wiley-Blackwell. Monaco, J. (2008). Bir Film Nasıl Okunur? – Sinema Dili, Tarihi ve Kuramı – Sinema, Medya ve Mültimedya Dünyası (10. Baskı). E. Yılmaz (çev.), İstanbul: Oğlak Yayıncılık. Phillips, P. (2000). Understanding Film Texts: Meaning and Experience. Londra: BFI Publishing. Phillips, P. (2012). Spectator, Audience and Response. Nelmes, J. (Ed.), Introduction to Film Studies (5. Baskı) içinde (114–141). Londra & New York: Routledge. Pramaggiore, M. ve Wallis, T. (2008). Film: A Critical Introduction (2. Baskı). Londra: Laurence King Publishing Ltd. Ryan, M., & Lenos, M. (2012). Film Çözümlemesine Giriş – Anlatı Sinemasında Teknik ve Anlam. E. S. Onat (çev.), Ankara: De Ki Basım Yayım.

Course Learning Outcomes

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Week Plan

Student Workload - ECTS