To examine the history of Turkish cinema from the beginning to the present with periods, directors, film examples, to give a comparative and critical perspective to evaluate the development process of cinema in Turkey.

The first Turkish film in written sources of Turkish cinema history, the Ottoman and Republican period comparisons, the Republican period cinema's periodicization approaches to question, the current and narrative type of the efforts to create a critical perspective and the comparative discussion of the periodical features constitute the content of this course. In this context, film samples related to important directors and periods will be followed and examined.