| 1 | Introduction – Meeting and course information; distribution of the course syllabus. | 1. Norbert Lynton (2009 Modern Sanatın Öyküsü, Çevirenler: Cevat Çapan ve Sadi Öziş, İstanbul: Remzi Kitabevi. |
| 2 | What is art? Is cinema an art form? Film screening: Short films from various countries and discussion within the framework of “cinema as art.” | 2. Ali Karadoğan (Derleyen) (2010), Sanat Sineması Üzerine, Ankara: De Ki. Andras Balint Kovacs (2010) Modernizmi Seyretmek: Avrupa Sanat Sineması, 1950-1980, Çeviren: Ertan Yılmaz, Ankara: De Ki. |
| 3 | Subjectivity, the “auteur,” and art cinema: Federico Fellini. Film screening: 8½ (Otto e mezzo, F. Fellini, Italy, 1963). | 3. Paul Schrader (2008) Kutsalın Görüntüsü, Çevirenler: Zeliha Hepkon-Oya Şakı Aydın, İstanbul: Es Yayınları |
| 4 | Minimalist cinema and Robert Bresson. Film screening: A Man Escaped (Un condamné à mort s’est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut, R. Bresson, France, 1956). | |
| 5 | The minimalism of Michelangelo Antonioni and the modernist art film. Film screening: L’Avventura (M. Antonioni, Italy, 1961). | |
| 6 | Subjectivity, the “auteur,” and art cinema: Federico Fellini. Film screening: 8½ (Otto e mezzo, F. Fellini, Italy, 1963). | |
| 7 | Realism and cinema; Cinema Novo; Third Cinema. Film screening: Barren Lives (Vidas Secas, Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Brazil, 1964). | |
| 8 | The New Wave, women, and “art cinema” – Agnès Varda. Film screening: Happiness (Le Bonheur, A. Varda, France, 1964). | |
| 9 | The individual, “inner worlds,” minimalism, “chamber film,” and Ingmar Bergman. Film screening: Persona (I. Bergman, Sweden, 1966). | |
| 10 | Gender, colonialism, and “art cinema” – Claire Denis. Film screening: Beau Travail (C. Denis, France, 1999). | |
| 11 | Far Eastern cinema, minimalism, and “art film.” Film screening: Café Lumière (Kohi Jiko, Hsiao-hsien Hou, Taiwan, 2003). | |
| 12 | Avant-garde, gender, and “art film.” Film screening: Caravaggio (Derek Jarman, UK, 1986). | |
| 13 | Influential figures in cinema (III) – Ken Loach: His cinematic approach; realism in cinema; the relationship between social issues and cinema. | |
| 14 | “Art cinema” and melodrama. Film screening: I Am Love (Io sono l’amore, Luca Guadagnino, Italy, 2009). | |