COURSE DESCRIPTION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION
| Course Name | Code | Semester | T+A+L (hour/week) | Type (C / O) | Local Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cinema and Sociology | RTC 338 | Fall | 03+00+00 | Elective | 3 | 5 |
| Academic Unit: | Faculty of Communication |
| Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
| Prerequisites: | None |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Course Unit: | Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: | - - |
| Course Objectives: | The students are expected to:
• Employ social theory reflexively in the analyses of art through discussions and writing with a view to distilling the ideas and futures/utopias involved in the chosen material. • Read both academic and more popular material, writing, making presentations, participating in workshop discussions and in small group work. (Each week the course will focus on a single film.) |
| Course Contents: | This course is of interest for students who are keen to explore the intersections of the artistic and sociological imaginations. The course is organized around three pivotal questions. Firstly, the course focuses on the question of how particular films represent and critique past or present-day societal patterns and everyday life. Secondly, the course asks how sociological themes and ideas enable us to situate and read films more productively as interventions in the social world. Finally, the course elaborates on the question of how cinema intervenes in the social world and in politics. Each week we will be viewing and analyzing one single film chosen for its dramatization of selected sociological themes and debates. |
| Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit (LO): |
|
| Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods: | Structured in three modules, this course is a combination of lectures, seminars, and workshops. Key concepts are introduced to the students in each module which are then assessed in terms of short written assignments and oral presentations. Students are expected to prepare for the lectures and seminars (reading, finding/examining material on films, preparing presentations). There will be written assessments to develop writing and referencing skills. |
WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATIONS
| Week | Subjects | Related Preperation |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Orientation Week (Introduction, course plan) | |
| 2 | Networks, violence and capital | Recommended reading and film |
| 3 | Crowds and power | Recommended reading and film |
| 4 | Orientalism | Recommended reading and film |
| 5 | The camp as social (non)relation | Short report and presentation |
| 6 | Terror and surveillance | Recommended reading and film |
| 7 | Laughter and comedy | Recommended reading and film |
| 8 | Ethics of the rem(a)inder | Short report and presentation |
| 9 | The mask and the idea | Recommended reading and film |
| 10 | Nihilism | Recommended reading and film |
| 11 | Disappearance as social topology | Recommended reading and film |
| 12 | Love and political spirituality | Recommended reading and film |
| 13 | War and politics | Short report and presentation |
| 14 | Review Week |
At Kadir Has University, a Semester is 14 weeks; The weeks 15 and 16 are reserved for final exams.
REQUIRED AND RECOMMENDED READING
| • Badiou, A (2013) Cinema, London: Polity • Baudrillard, J (1994) Simulacra and Simulation. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press. • Cubitt, C (2000) Simulation and Social Theory, Sage. • Deleuze, G (2005) Cinema I&II. The Movement Image. Continuum. • Denzin, N (1995): The Cinematic Society. The Voyeur’s Gaze. Sage. • Fiennes, S (2006) The Perverse’s Guide to Cinema. (Film/DVD) • Harvey, D (1989) The condition of Postmodernity, Basil Blackwell, 1989 • Kracauer, S (1947/2004) From Caligari to Hitler. A Psychological History of the German Film. Princeton NJ: Princeton UP. • Modleski, T (1989) The Woman Who Knew too Much. London: Routledge. • Morin, E (2005): The Cinema - or the Imaginary Man, University of Minnesota Press. • O’Connor, D (2002) Mediated Associations. Cinematic Dimensions of Social Theory. McGill-Queen’s University Press. • Pisters, P (2003) The Matrix of Visual Culture: Working with Deleuze in Film Theory. Stanford: Stanford University Press. • Ranciere, J (2006) Film Fables, 2006, Oxford: Berg. • Shiel, M & Fitzmaurice, T (2001) Cinema and the City. Film and Urban Societies in a Global Context. Blackwell. • Turner, G (1999) Film As Social Practice, Routledge. • Virilio, P (1989) War and Cinema: The Logistic of Perception. Verso. • Weber, C (2006) Imagining America at War. Morality, politics and film. London: Routledge. • Zizek, S (2001) Enjoy Your Symptom! Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and out. Revised Edition. London: Routledge. • Žižek, S (2002) Welcome to the Desert of the Real, London: Verso. |
OTHER COURSE RESOURCES
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA
| Semester Requirements | Number | Percentage of Grade (%) |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance / Participation | 14 | - |
| Project | 4 | 70 |
| Presentation / Jury | 4 | 10 |
| Midterms | 1 | 20 |
| Total: | 23 | 100 |
WORKLOAD
| Events | Count | Duration (Hours) | Total Workload (hour) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Hours | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Project | 4 | 15 | 60 |
| Preparation for Presentation / Jury | 4 | 2 | 8 |
| Midterms | 1 | 15 | 15 |
| Total Workload (hour): | 125 | ||
1 ECTS = 25 Hours Workload
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (LO) AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS (PQ)
| # | PQ1 | PQ2 | PQ3 | PQ4 | PQ5 | PQ6 | PQ7 | PQ8 | PQ9 | PQ10 | PQ11 |
| LO1 | |||||||||||
| LO2 |
Contribution: 1 Low, 2 Average, 3 High