| Course Objectives: |
This course aims to understand politics via (probably) the most popular field of culture: films. It introduces students to the basic issues, concepts and ideologies of politics and how those are represented, and also criticized, in selected movies. The subjects that will be covered in this course include cold war and deterrence, (anti)militarism, (post) colonialism, gender politics, capitalism, migration, ethnic conflict, social movements/resistance, fascism/dictatorship, totalitarianism and racism. |
| Course Content: |
The Relationships between Politics and Film; Politics in Movies; Politics of Movies; Film as a Medium for Illustrating, Defending, and Challenging Political Ideas; Critical Content Analysis; Film and Totalitarianism; Film and Colonialism;Anti-Colonialism; Film and Violence; Film and Gender. |
| Week |
Subject |
Related Preparation |
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| 1) |
• Review of syllabus
• Review and discussion of the course outline
• Framing assessment policy and other requirements |
none |
| 1) |
• To teach totalitarianism
• The movie ‘The Lives of Others’
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Watching of the movie 'The Lives of Others' |
| 2) |
• To demonstrate how films and artworks are not value-free, but reflect the views of those who produce it.
• To demonstrate films as social constructs
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none |
| 3) |
• How films speak to us?
• How directors express their opinions |
None |
| 4) |
• To teach Cold War and Nuclear Deterrence
• The Movie ‘Dr. Strangelove’ |
The movie of Dr. Strangelove will be watched |
| 5) |
• To teach militarism
• The movie ‘Full Metal Jacket’
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Watching of the movie Full Metal Jacket |
| 6) |
• To teach ethnic conflicts
• The movie ‘Sometimes in April’
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Watching of the movie 'Sometimes in April' |
| 7) |
• To teach migration
• The movie ‘In This World’
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Watching of the documentary In This World |
| 8) |
• To teach capitalism
• The movie ‘There will be blood’
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'There Will be Blood' filminin izlenmesi |
| 9) |
• To teach fascism/dictatorship
• The Movie ‘The Great Dictator’
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Watching of the movie 'The Great Dictator' |
| 10) |
• To teach totalitarianism
• The movie ‘The Lives of Others’
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watching of the movie The Lives of Others |
| 11) |
• To teach social movements/resistance
• The Movie ‘Al Midan’
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Watching of the Movie Al-Midan |
| 12) |
• To teach gender politics/capitalism
• The movie Dogville
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Watching of the movie Dogville |
| 13) |
• Evaluate students via final exam
• Final Exam
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none |
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Program Outcomes |
Level of Contribution |
| 1) |
1. Acquainting oneself with technologic developments which have effect on new media area.
2. Gaining the theoretical infrastructure controling the influence flow within social media, society and digital culture.
3. Implementing digital communication on productive and strategic projects by using the right applications.
4. Wining theoretical and factual infrastructure to use data which can reach the right information in an ethical way. |
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| 2) |
1.Designing, strategizing and managing related processes as an active actor of the new media at the center of all transformations and changes, especially production, marketing, journalism, social relations.
2.Being able to comprehend the interdisciplinary structure of the new media and the tendency to work with traditional media such as newspapers, radio and TV, and to produce interactive content in this direction.
3.Generating a new generation of news in the context of news gathering and writing transformations; to be a new media correspondent, editor or producer in newspapers, radio or TV institutions carrying publishing activities on the Internet and mobile media.
4.Designing, producing and implementing content for public and private organizations with disciplines as public relations, trade, advertising for effective reach to target audience, productivity and competitive advantage.
5. Solving the crisis based new media at the institutions and to produce parallel strategies to the new situation.
6.Portal management, learning and implementation of stages in web design areas. |
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| 3) |
1.Entrepreneurship that to be able to present thoughts and creativity in all new media platforms like web, newspaper, blog, e-commerce.
2.Informative, entertaining content production based on social existence, sharing and interaction in social media.
3.To be able to perform the profession as a team member and fulfill the responsibilities, while remaining committed to ethical values.
4.Paying attention to the fair representation of the views of all parties within the framework of accountability, equal approach to the parties and not misleading. |
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| 4) |
1. Comprehension of media literacy skills in the process of news gathering.
2. Learning how to effectively use and develop new media platforms.
3. Comprehension of conceptual connections between media and politics
4. To be able to understand and question the basic principles of mass communication and the place and importance of mass communication.
5. Developing a perspective of being able to analyze and tired of economic politics, social, political and cultural influences of mass communication. |
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| 5) |
1. communicating with digital agencies about new media projects in order to be a part of the solution.
2. Sharing the solution suggestions on communication area using qualitative and quantitative research.
3. Organizing and implementing projects and events for one'ssocial environment using the digital communication formats in a creative way. |
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| 6) |
1. Understanding the basic principles and doctrines of communication and foprming a point of view.
2. Understanding and evaluating theoritical approach on communication.
3. Comprehension of criticism on media theories.
4. In Turkey and in the world assessing industry 4.0 strategies, Making the analysis of the practices.
5. Solving possible crises in the institutions by evaluating all technological, political and economic developments that will affect the new media field and producing parallel strategies to the new situation |
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