MCS2535 FILM CRITICISM I
| Course Code: |
8162535 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): |
3(3-0) |
| ECTS Credit: |
8.0 |
| Department: |
Media And Cultural Studies |
| Language of Instruction: |
English |
| Level of Study: |
Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: |
Prof.Dr. NECMÝ ERDOÐAN |
| Offered Semester: |
Fall Semesters. |
Course Content
The course introduces students to film criticism and analysis. Employing various theoretical approaches to the study of film, it analyzes a number of films from world cinema selected on the basis of a particular theme or mode of cinematic representation. The module also offers students the opportunity to write critical essays on the films screened for the class. The focus of this semesters course will be on the cinematic representations of social classes. It examines the ways in which class relations and encounters are represented in a group of films selected from different contexts around the world. It provides students with conceptual tools to analyze the films which, even though they were made in relatively different contexts, share a common concern with thematizing various experiences of class under the conditions of late capitalism. References will also be made to the literature on social theory and social history as well as film studies.
