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Language of Instruction
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English
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Level of Course Unit
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Bachelor's Degree
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Department / Program
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POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
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Type of Program
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Formal Education
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Type of Course Unit
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Elective
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Course Delivery Method
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Face To Face
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Objectives of the Course
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The main goal of the class is to help students establish connections between an artwork/artform and its socio-political and historical context.
As a truly modern form of art because of its collective nature of production process, cinema allows us to reflect on a variety of aesthetic and political issues in ways no other forms of art can offer. Thus, the second goal of this class is to encourage students to identify the potential and prospects of cinema and critically engage with this content.
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Course Content
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This class explores post-World War II world cinema to understand the politics of the formative period between 1945 and 1980. There are four main interrelated reasons to focus on this period:
1) With the end of the World War II, the world has undergone a hitherto unseen scale of social, economic, demographic, political and cultural transformations.
2) The legacies of this formative period continue to shape the world we live in today in various ways.
3) Despite the continuing weight of its Euro-American variant and the hegemonic presence of Hollywood, cinema as an art form reached its truly global scale in this era.
4) With its outreach and depth, cinema was a leading artform to make sense of and reflect on the developments of this formative period.
This is NOT a film theory class. It does not focus on the complex and convoluted film production processes, either. Instead it engages cinema as a window to reflect on the crucial themes of the post-World War II period such as post/colonialism, the rise of middle classes, changing character of gender relations, nation building, conflicting aspects of urbanization and internal migration in the non-Western parts of the world, legacies of nuclear war and the Vietnam War.
Even though this is not a film theory class, it will feature basic approaches on how to interpret and analyze a film in the first part of the class. Because of our emphasis on large scale social, political, economic and cultural changes, we will also spend a considerable time on readings and other media shedding light on the historical context.
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Course Methods and Techniques
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Prerequisites and co-requisities
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None
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Course Coordinator
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Research Assist. İBRAHİM ALSANCAK ibrahim.alsancak@agu.edu.tr
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Name of Lecturers
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Asist Prof.Dr. EVREN MEHMET DİNÇER
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Assistants
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None
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Work Placement(s)
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No
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Recommended or Required Reading
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