ID726 MATERIAL CULTURE IN LITERATURE AND CINEMA
| Course Code: | 1250726 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 8.0 |
| Department: | Industrial Design |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Lecturer ŞEYDA BAŞLI |
| Offered Semester: | Fall Semesters. |
Course Objectives
Understanding basic concepts of sociological, cultural and literary theory related to the formation of modernity and material culture.
Analyzing material culture as depicted in literary works and cinema films.
Exploring the relationship between conceptual thinking and the concrete characteristics of products within the scope of modernization.
Studying discursive mechanisms that shape modern material culture via popular culture, literature and cinema.
Course Content
Modern material culture; products in different contexts; relationship between conceptions and concrete objects (end-products); European and Ottoman-Turkish modernization; literary texts and movie films as analytical tools to depict material culture under modernity; history of Turkish popular material culture and its transformation.
Course Learning Outcomes
Students will:
use analytical and conceptual tools to examine any given literary work, movie film or a visual production of popular culture benefiting from narratology, semiology and sociological theory,
prepare a term paper to analyse the depiction of material culture in literature, cinema and popular culture, and present their work in the classroom,
understand and examplify how meaning is produced and how material things become the vehicle of meaning in material and popular culture.