Description of Individual Course Units
Course Unit CodeCourse Unit TitleType of Course UnitYear of StudySemesterNumber of ECTS Credits
SST40720121130TENDENCIES IN CONTEMPORARY THEATRE ICompulsory473
Level of Course Unit
First Cycle
Objectives of the Course
• Avant-garde • Contemporary theatre • Modern • Postmodern • Ritual • Performance • Interculturalism
Name of Lecturer(s)
Öğr. Gör. Züleyha Çubuk
Learning Outcomes
1• To teach the avant-garde theory
2• To introduce the contemporary theatre
3• To tell the trends in contemporary theatre
4• To debate the modern and postmodern effects in contemporary theatre
5• To show the effects of ritual, theatre and performance theories to the creation of stage
Mode of Delivery
Formal Education
Prerequisites and co-requisities
None
Recommended Optional Programme Components
None
Course Contents
• To teach the avant-garde theory • To introduce the contemporary theatre • To tell the trends in contemporary theatre • To debate the modern and postmodern effects in contemporary theater • To show the effects of ritual, theatre and performance theories to the creation of stage • To research the intercultural effects in contemporary theatre
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
WeekTheoreticalPracticeLaboratory
1A theoretical introduction to the contemporary theatre: modernity, individual, art as mimesis
2Charles Baudelaire and the heroes of modernity
3Charles Baudelaire and the heroes of modernity
4Charles Baudelaire and the heroes of modernity
5Walter Benjamin and Modern Aesthetics Theory
6Walter Benjamin and Modern Aesthetics Theory
7Walter Benjamin and Modern Aesthetics Theory
8Midterm Exam
9“Presentation (Mimesis) crisis” in theatre
10Peter Bürger and avant-garde theory
11Peter Bürger and avant-garde theory
12Avant-garde theatre
13Avant-garde theatre
14Avant-garde theatre
15Final Exam
16Final Exam
Recommended or Required Reading
Baudelaire, Charles (2004). Modern Hayatın Ressamı, Çeviren:Ali Berktay (İstanbul: İletişim Yayıncılık). Benjamin, Walter (2007) Pasajlar. Çeviren: Ahmet Cemal (İstanbul Yapı Kredi Yayınları). Brecht, Bertolt. (2005b). Tiyatro İçin Küçük Organon (2. Basım). (Ahmet Cemal, Çev.). İstanbul: Mitos-Boyut Yayınları. Brook, Peter. (2004). Açık Kapı: Oyunculuk ve Tiyatro Üzerine Düşünceler. (Metin Balay, Çev.). İstanbul: Yapı Kredi Yayınları. Bürger, Peter. (2003) Avangard Kuramı, Çeviren: Ali Berktay, (İstanbul: İletişim Yayıncılık) Candan, Ayşın. 20. Yüzyılda Öncü Tiyatro. İstanbul: Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2003. Carlson, Marvin. Tiyatro Teorileri. Çevirenler: Eren Buğlalılar ve Barış Yıldırım. Ankara: Deki Yayınları, 2007. -----------------------. (2014) Performans Eleştirel Bir Giriş, Çeviren: Beliz Güçbilmez (Ankara: Dost Kitabevi). Esslin, Martin. (1999) Absürd Tiyatro, Çeviren: (Ankara: Dost Kitabevi). Innes, Christopher. (2010). Avant-garde Tiyatro 1892-1992 (2. Basım). (Beliz Güçbilmez, Çev.). Ankara: Dost Kitabevi. Benjamin, Walter. (1999). Experience and Poverty. Michael W. Jennings, HowardEiland, and Gary Smith (Ed.), Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 2, 1927-1934 (s. 731-736). (Rodney Livingstone, and others, Trans.). Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London: Harvard University Press. ------------------------, (2006a). Baudelaire’de Bazı Motifler Üzerine. Nurdan Gürbilek (Haz.), Son Bakışta Aşk (s. 116-154) (4. Basım). (Nurdan Gürbilek, ve Sabir Yücesoy, Çev.). İstanbul: Metis Yayınları. -------------------------, (2006b). Hikâye Anlatıcısı. Nurdan Gürbilek (Haz.), Son Bakışta Aşk (s. 77-100) (4. Basım). (Nurdan Gürbilek, ve Sabir Yücesoy, Çev.). İstanbul: Metis Yayınları. Agamben, Giorgio. (2010). Çocukluk ve Tarih: Deneyimin Yıkımı Üzerine Bir Deneme. (Betül Parlak, Çev.). İstanbul: Pusula Yayıncılık. Grotowski, J., "Performer", Tiyatro Araştırmaları Dergisi, Çeviren: Barış Yıldırım ve Eren Buğlalılar, Ankara Üniversitesi, 2005, sayı 20. Nutku, Özdemir. (2015) Bertold Brecht ve Epik Tiyatro, (İstanbul: Özgür Yayınları).
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Term (or Year) Learning ActivitiesQuantityWeight
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End Of Term (or Year) Learning ActivitiesQuantityWeight
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Yarıyıl (Yıl) İçi Etkinlikleri40
Yarıyıl (Yıl) Sonu Etkinlikleri60
SUM100
Language of Instruction
Turkish
Work Placement(s)
None
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesNumberTime (hours)Total Work Load (hours)
Midterm Examination155
Final Examination155
Attending Lectures10330
Discussion10220
Question-Answer10330
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)90
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