ILEM709 Film History and Theory

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Course Goal / Objective

This course aims to examine the major positions and issues in film theory with an eye to understanding connections between the early days of film and contemporary approaches to understanding film.

Course Content

The content of the course include classification of film theory; relationship between film and the real; formalism-realism debates; the space-time in cinema; auteur theory; genre criticism; film semiotics; psychoanalytical, feminist and Marxist approaches and perception studies.

Course Precondition

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Resources

Allen, R. C. (1990). From exhibition to reception: reflections on the audience in film history. Screen, 31(4), 347-356. Biltereyst, D., Maltby, R., & Meers, P. (Eds.). (2013). Cinema, audiences and modernity: New perspectives on European cinema history. Routledge. Biltereyst, D., Maltby, R., & Meers, P. (Eds.). (2019). The Routledge companion to new cinema history. Routledge. Biltereyst, D., & Meers, P. (2011). The political economy of audiences. The handbook of political economy of communications, 415-435. Biltereyst, D., & Meers, P. (2016). New cinema history and the comparative mode: Reflections on comparing historical cinema cultures. Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, (11), 13-32. Biltereyst, D., & Meers, P. (2018). Film, cinema and reception studies. Reception studies and audiovisual translation, 21-41. Biltereyst, D., & Van de Vijver, L. (Eds.). (2020). Mapping Movie Magazines: Digitization, Periodicals and Cinema History. Springer Nature. Bowles, K. (2011). Lost horizon: the social history of the cinema audience. History Compass, 9(11), 854-863. Casetti, F. (2009). Filmic experience. Screen, 50(1), 56-66. Ercole, P., Treveri Gennari, D., & O’Rawe, C. (2017). Mapping cinema memories: Emotional geographies of cinemagoing in Rome in the 1950s. Memory Studies, 10(1), 63-77. Fuller-Seeley, K. (Ed.). (2008). Hollywood in the neighborhood: Historical case studies of local moviegoing. Univ of California Press. Gennari, D. T., O’Rawe, C., Hipkins, D., Dibeltulo, S., & Culhane, S. (2020). Italian Cinema Audiences: Histories and Memories of Cinema-going in Post-war Italy. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. Gennari, D. T., & Sedgwick, J. (2015). Memories in context: the social and economic function of cinema in 1950s Rome. Film history: An international journal, 27(2), 76-104. Kuhn, A., Biltereyst, D., & Meers, P. (2017). Memories of cinemagoing and film experience: An introduction. Memory Studies, 10(1), 3-16. Maltby, R., Biltereyst, D., & Meers, P. (Eds.). (2011). Explorations in new cinema history: Approaches and case studies. John Wiley & Sons. Meers, P., Biltereyst, D., & Van De Vijver, L. (2010). Metropolitan vs rural cinemagoing in Flanders, 1925–75. Screen, 51(3), 272-280. Stokes, M., & Maltby, R. (Eds.). (2019). Hollywood spectatorship: Changing perceptions of cinema audiences. Bloomsbury Publishing. Stokes, M., & Maltby, R. (Eds.). (1999). American movie audiences: From the turn of the century to the early sound era. London: British Film Institute. Thissen, J., & Zimmermann, C. (2017). Cinema beyond the City. Bloomsbury Publishing. Treveri-Gennari, D., O’Rawe, C., & Hipkins, D. (2011). In Search of Italian Cinema Audiences in the 1940s and 1950s: Gender, genre and national identity. Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, 8(2), 539-553. Van de Vijver, L., & Biltereyst, D. (2013). Cinemagoing as a Conditional Part of Everyday Life: Memories of Cinemagoing in Ghent from the 1930s to the 1970s. Cultural Studies, 27(4), 561-584.

Notes

Abisel, N. (2003). Sessiz Sinema. Ankara: Om Yayınevi. Hartcourt, P. (2008). Altı Avrupalı Yönetmen. Ö. Özdüzen ve O. Yusufoğlu (çev.), İstanbul: Doruk Yayıncılık. İri, M. (Ed.) (2009). Sinema Araştırmaları: Kuramlar, Kavramlar, Yaklaşımlar (2. Basım). İstanbul: Derin Yayınları. Kovacs, A. B. (2010). Modernizmi Seyretmek – Avrupa Sanat Sineması, 1950–1980. E. Yılmaz (çev.). Ankara De Ki Basım Yayım Ltd. Şti. 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. Orr, J. (1997). Sinema ve Modernlik. A. Bahçıvan (çev.), Ankara: Bilim ve Sanat Yayınları. Teksoy, R. (2005a). Rekin Teksoy’un Sinema Tarihi – Birinci Cilt. İstanbul: Oğlak Yayıncılık ve Reklamcılık Ltd. Şti. Teksoy, R. (2005b). Rekin Teksoy’un Sinema Tarihi – İkinci Cilt. İstanbul: Oğlak Yayıncılık ve Reklamcılık Ltd. Şti. Wayne, M. (2009). Politik Film: Üçüncü Sinema’nın Diyalektiği. E. Yılmaz. (çev.), İstanbul: Yordam Kitap.

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