Information Package / Course Catalogue
| Course Code | : RTS342 |
| Course Type | : Area Elective |
| Couse Group | : First Cycle (Bachelor's Degree) |
| Education Language | : Turkish |
| Work Placement | : N/A |
| Theory | : 3 |
| Prt. | : 0 |
| Credit | : 3 |
| Lab | : 0 |
| ECTS | : 5 |
It is aimed to explain the concept of genre in cinema and to examine the formal and contextual features of the genres that emerged throughout the history of cinema. The main goal is, provide students the competence to evaluate the relation between film genre and social structure, to criticize and discuss examples of genre films.
It is the course that genre settlement in Hollywood, world and Turkish cinema, artistic and commercial dimension of genre films, the relationship between the genre and social, economic and cultural structure, and the characteristics of film genres are examined and evaluated.
| 1. | Explain the emergence and development process of genres. |
| 2. | Define the formal and contextual characteristics of genre cinema. |
| 3. | Explain the relationship between genre cinema and socio-economic, cultural structure and ideology |
| 4. | Evaluate the conventions, distinctions, codes, thematic and formal characteristics of which any film contains and understand whether that film is a genre movie or not. |
| 5. | Interpret the changing process of genre films in the context of social and historical background |
| 1. | Altman, Rick, Film/Genre, London, British Film Institute, 1999. |
| 2. | Langford, Barry, Film Genre: Hollywood and Beyond, Edinburgh University Press, 2005. |
| 3. | Abisel, Nilgün, Popüler Sinema ve Türler, İstanbul, Alan Yayıncılık, 1999. |
| 4. | Özkoçak, Yelda (Ed.), Türlerle Türk Sineması, İstanbul, Derin Yayınları, 2015 |
| Type of Assessment | Count | Percent |
|---|---|---|
| Attending Lectures | 5 | %5 |
| Quiz | 1 | %10 |
| Midterm Examination | 1 | %25 |
| Final Examination | 1 | %60 |
| Activities | Count | Preparation | Time | Total Work Load (hours) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lecture - Theory | 14 | 0 | 3 | 42 |
| Reading | 4 | 0 | 2 | 8 |
| Individual Work | 14 | 0 | 2 | 28 |
| Quiz | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Midterm Examination | 1 | 14 | 1 | 15 |
| Final Examination | 1 | 30 | 1 | 31 |
| TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) | 125 | |||
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 | PÇ-15 | PÇ-16 | |
OÇ-1 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||
OÇ-2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 4 | |||||||||
OÇ-3 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | |||||||||||
OÇ-4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||
OÇ-5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 2 | |||||||||