FACULTY OF HEALTH SCIENCES

Department of Health Management

GEAR 306 | Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Name

Hollywood Cinema

Code	Semester	Theory (hour/week)	Application/Lab (hour/week)	Local Credits	ECTS
GEAR 306	Fall/Spring	3	0	3	4

Prerequisites	None
Course Language	English
Course Type	Service Course
Course Level	First Cycle
Mode of Delivery	-
Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course	Discussion Q&A Lecture / Presentation
Course Coordinator	-
Course Lecturer(s)	Öğr. Gör. Deborah HARDT
Assistant(s)	-

Course Objectives	This course aims to enable students to develop a general knowledge of Hollywood's production/distribution/exhibition networks. It identifies main themes and styles throughout Hollywood's history and discusses its patterns of authorship, star system, technology and genres. The course contextualizes Hollywood as a global system not only as a business but also as a system of meanings.
Learning Outcomes	The students who succeeded in this course; Demonstrate an understanding of key concepts in film studies and their reflections on Hollywood cinema Demonstrate an understanding of the heterogeneity of Hollywood cinema with its various genres and approaches. Understand of Hollywood’s star system, key studios, directors and its relation to other media. Understand Hollywood’s complex relationship to key social and economic crises, cultural shifts and technological developments. Critically analyze individual Hollywood films from different periods and genres, while also comparing different films from a diversity of genres and periods.
Course Description	This course examines Hollywood in its economic, cultural and historical context. It studies its industrial dynamics (studio system, star system, etc.) in parallel with its narrative tendencies and stylistic devices. Students are expected to attend the lectures, watch the films and actively participate with the class discussion following each screening.

Course Category	Core Courses
	Major Area Courses
	Supportive Courses
	Media and Management Skills Courses
	Transferable Skill Courses

WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATION STUDIES

Week	Subjects	Related Preparation
1	Review of the Semester
2	Review of the Semester
3	Introduction - Hollywood and Social Change Modern Times (1936) Charlie Chaplim	Howe, Lawrence. "Charlie Chaplin in the age of Mechanical Reproduction: reflexive ambiguity in Modern Times." College Literature 40, no. 1 (2013): 45-65.
4	There is No Place Like Home The Wizard of Oz (1939) Victor Fleming	Pawlett W., Dhanda M., (2010) "The Shared Destiny of the Radically Other: A reading of The Wizard of Oz". Film-Philosophy, Paige, L.R. (1996) Wearing the Red Shoes: Dorothy and the Power of the Female Imagination in The Wizard of Oz, Journal of Popular Film and Television, 23:4, 146-153,
5	Doing the Thinking for U.S. Casablanca (1942) Michael Curtiz	Nachbar, Jack, (2000) "Doing the Thinking for All of Us: Casablanca and the Home Front", Journal of Popular Film and Television, 27:4, 5-15,
6	Modern Horror Pscycho (1960) Alfred Hitchcock	Clover, Carol J. “Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film.” Representations, no. 20, 1987, pp. 187–228. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/2928507.
7	New Hollywood Bonnie and Clyde (1967) Arthur Penn	King, G. (2002). New Hollywood Cinema: An Introduction. Bloomsbury Publishing, pp. 1-39. Schatz, T. The New Hollywood (PDF handout). Tzioumakis, Y. (2006). The New Hollywood and the Independent Hollywood in American Independent Cinema: An Introduction (Rutgers, pp. 169-191.
8	Midterm Exam
9	Misogyny and the Threat to Masculinity One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) Milos Forman	Farber, S., Americana, Sweet and Sour, The Hudson Review, Vol. 29, No. 1 (Spring, 1976), pp. 95-102
10	Independent Cinema Do The Right Thing (1989) Spike Lee	Lott, T. L., A No-Theory Theory of Contemporary Black Cinema. Black American Literature Forum, Vol. 25, No. 2, Black Film Issue (Summer, 1991), pp. 221-236.
11	The Myth of Boyhood Rushmore (1998) Wes Anderson	Olsen, Mark. “If I Can Dream: The Everlasting Boyhoods of Wes Anderson.” Film Comment, vol. 35, no. 1, 1999, pp. 12–17.
12	History and Politics in Horror Cinema Get Out (2017) Jordan Peele	Landsberg, Alison, (2018) Horror Vérité: Politics and History in Jordan Peele’s Get Out. Continuum, 32:5, pp. 629-642.
13	Modern Nomads Nomadland (2020) Chloé Zhao	Lindemann, Tim. “Travelling the Scenic Landscape: Community, Nationalism and Precarity in Nomadland.” Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication, Volume 13, Number 1, 1 June 2022, pp. 25-40. White, Patricia. “Women Auteurs, Western Promises” Film Quarterly (2022) 75 (4): pp. 23–33.
14	Course Review/Final Exam
15	Course Review
16	Course Review

Course Notes/Textbooks
Suggested Readings/Materials	Bordwell, David, and Kristin Thompson. Film History: An Introduction. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2008

EVALUATION SYSTEM

Semester Activities	Number	Weigthing
Participation	1	10
Laboratory / Application
Field Work
Quizzes / Studio Critiques
Portfolio
Homework / Assignments
Presentation / Jury
Project
Seminar / Workshop
Oral Exams
Midterm	1	40
Final Exam	1	50
Total

Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade	3	100
Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade
Total

ECTS / WORKLOAD TABLE

Semester Activities	Number	Duration (Hours)	Workload
Theoretical Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours)	16	3	48
Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: '.16.' x total hours)	16		0
Study Hours Out of Class			0
Field Work			0
Quizzes / Studio Critiques		34	0
Portfolio			0
Homework / Assignments			0
Presentation / Jury			0
Project			0
Seminar / Workshop			0
Oral Exam			0
Midterms	1	30	30
Final Exam	1	42	42
		Total	120

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS RELATIONSHIP

Program Competencies/Outcomes

* Contribution Level

To be able to acquire and use theoretical and practical knowledge in the field of health management.

To be able to create and use new information by integrating information in the field of health management with information from different disciplines

To be able to solve the problems that require expertise by using scientific research methods.

To be able to solve a problem in the field of health management by using appropriate problem solving techniques.

To be able to transfer the current developments in the field of health management with the data and to transfer them systematically to the groups in and out of the field in written, oral and visual form.

To be able to critically examine the norms governing corporate culture and organizational communication, to develop them and to take action to change them when necessary.

To be able to develop implementation plans in health management field and to evaluate the results within the framework of health services management quality processes.

To be able to act by considering social, scientific, cultural and ethical values in the stages of data collection, interpretation and announcement while managing health institutions.

To be able to take responsibility as an individual and a team member in the problems encountered in the related field applications while managing health institutions.

To be able to plan and manage the activities of the employees whose under their responsibility while managing health institutions.

To be able to relate the knowledge accumulated throughout the human history to their field of expertise.

To be able to collect data in the areas of “Health Management” and communicate with colleagues in a foreign language.

To be able to speak a second foreign at a medium level of fluency efficiently.

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