Information Package / Course Catalogue
Film Analysis
Course Code: RTS403
Course Type: Required
Couse Group: First Cycle (Bachelor's Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 3
Prt.: 0
Credit: 3
Lab: 0
ECTS: 5
Objectives of the Course

Basic approaches in film analysis; Theoretical and practical dimensions of the students to be taught at least two film analyzes are aimed at these students

Course Content

This course includes approaches to historical, philosophical, auether, feminist, semiotic theory, sociological, ideological, psychoanalytic, political, postmodern and genre criticism and analysis on related films.

Name of Lecturer(s)
Assoc. Prof. Dilan TÜYSÜZ
Learning Outcomes
1.Learns different film analysis methods and can apply them to various films.
2.Analyzes the social, cultural and political contexts of films by making comprehensive interpretations on films.
3.Gains the ability to evaluate films from a critical point of view.
4.Interpret films by analyzing the narrative techniques, visual and auditory elements of films.
5.Conducts academic research on film analysis and presents his/her findings in writing.
6.Develops the ability to express film analysis in a structured, logical and fluent written form.
7.Develops critical thinking and communication skills by analyzing films from various perspectives.
Recommended or Required Reading
1.Michael Ryan&Melissa Lenos (2012) Film Çözümlemesine Giriş
2.Zafer Özden. Film Eleştirisi
3.Corrigan, Timothy (2008) Film Eleştirisi El Kitabı (çev. Ahmet Gürata), Ankara: Dipnot Yayınları.
4.James Monaco (2001) Bir Film Nasıl Okunur
5.Peter Wollen (2008) Sinemada Göstergeler ve Anlam
6.Murat İri (2011)Sinema Araştırmaları Kuramlar Yaklaşımlar
7.Mike Wayne” (2009) Politik Film”
8.M. Ryan & D. Kellner. (2010) ”Politik Kamera”
9.Foss, Bob (2009). Sinema ve Televizyonda Anlatım Teknikleri ve Dramaturji (çev. Mustafa Gerçeker), İstanbul: Hayalbaz Kitap.
10.Monaco, James (2002). Bir Film Nasıl Okunur? Sinema, Medya ve Multimedya Dünyası (çev. Ertan Yılmaz), İstanbul: Oğlak Yayıncılık.
11.Oluk, Ayşen (2008). Klasik Anlatı Sineması, İstanbul: Hayalet Kitap.
12.Serdar Öztürk. “Mekan ve İktidar: Filmlerle İletişim Mekanlarının Altpolitikası”.
13.Lale Kabadayı “Film Eleştirisi”
14.”2000 Sonrası Türk Sinemasına Eleştirel Bir Bakış” (Derleme)
15.Veysel Atayman ”Şiddetin Mitolojisi”
16.Mike Wayne ”Sinemayı Anlamak-Marksist Perspektifler-“
17.John Orr ”Sinema ve Modernlik”
18.Anneke Smelik ”Feminist Sinema ve Film Teorisi”
19.”Postmodernizm ve Sinema” (Derleme)
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
Informing about the content of the lecture, introducing written and visual sources
Week 2 - Theoretical
The difference between popular criticism and academic criticism Distinction between film commentator and film critic, History of film criticism
Week 3 - Theoretical
Sociological film analysis
Week 4 - Theoretical
Ideological film analysis
Week 5 - Theoretical
Historical film analysis
Week 6 - Theoretical
Semiological film analysis
Week 7 - Theoretical
Structuralist film analysis
Week 8 - Theoretical
Midterm -Psychoanalytic
Week 9 - Theoretical
Psychoanalytic film analysis
Week 10 - Theoretical
Feminist film analysis
Week 11 - Theoretical
Genre film analysis
Week 12 - Theoretical
Auteur film analysis
Week 13 - Theoretical
Mise-en-scène analysis
Week 14 - Theoretical
Examples of film analysis
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Midterm Examination1%40
Final Examination1%40
Quiz8%20
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory134391
Quiz81116
Midterm Examination1639
Final Examination1639
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)125
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
PÇ-1
PÇ-2
PÇ-3
PÇ-4
PÇ-5
PÇ-6
PÇ-7
PÇ-8
PÇ-9
PÇ-10
PÇ-11
PÇ-12
PÇ-13
PÇ-14
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PÇ-16
OÇ-1
5
3
4
5
4
4
4
OÇ-2
4
3
3
4
5
5
OÇ-3
4
2
5
5
3
4
OÇ-4
4
2
3
4
3
2
5
OÇ-5
3
2
4
4
4
OÇ-6
3
4
4
3
OÇ-7
4
2
2
5
5
3
5
Adnan Menderes University - Information Package / Course Catalogue
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