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  1. Faculty of Communication Sciences
  2. Department of Cinema and Television (30% English)
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Last Updated: 30/09/2026

Code - Course Title Course Type Laboratory + Practice ECTS
STV348 - Film Genres VI. SEMESTER 3 +0 4.5
Language of Instruction İngilizce
Course Type Area Elective Courses
Course Instructor(s) DOÇ. DR. ÖZGÜR ÇALIŞKAN
Mode of Delivery Face to Face
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Prerequisites There is no prerequisities for this lecture.
Courses Recomended There is no recommended optional programme component for this course.
Recommended Resources Louis Giannetti. (2002). Understanding Movies. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall Inc.Berry Langford. (2005). Film Genre: Hollywood and Beyond. Edinbrugh University Press.Barry Keith Grant. (2007). Film Genre: From Iconography to Ideology. Wallflower.Barry Keith Grant. (Ed). (2012). Film Genre Reader. University of Texas Press. Rick Altman. (1999). Film/Genre. British Film Institute.Torben Grodal. (1999). Moving Pictures: A New Theory of Film Genres, Feelings, and Cognition. Clarendon Press.
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Week - 1 Genre Concept: Genre analysis, theoretical approaches, film genre, the evolution of genre films.
Week - 2 Hollywood Cinema and Studio System.
Week - 3 Basic narrative elements of genre films: Narrative, characters, star actors, visual signs (iconography).
Week - 4 Western: History, basic elements, evolution of the genre.
Week - 5 Western: Iconography / Sample Movie Watching.
Week - 6 Detective-Noir Film: History, basic elements, evolution of the genre.
Week - 7 Detective-Noir Film: Iconography / Sample Movie Watching.
Week - 8 Musical: History, basic elements, evolution of the genre.
Week - 9 Musical: Iconography / Sample Movie Watching.
Week - 10 Horror-Thriller: History, basic elements, evolution of the genre.
Week - 11 Horror-Thriller: Iconography / Sample Movie Watching.
Week - 12 Different Genres in Cinema.
Week - 13 Different Genres in Cinema / Sample Movie Watching.
Week - 14 Current Discussions on Genre Films.

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