Australian Screen Education back issues from April 2006:
PROMOTING TOLERANCE AND DIVERSITY: 'PAPER CLIPS' AND THE MEMORY OF THE HOLOCAUST
Apr 01, 2006; ... THE RECENT MONTHS HAVE WITNESSED PREMIERES OF FILMS COMMEMORATING THE VICTIMS OF THE HOLOCAUST AND THE SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE LIBERATION OF THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS. Lajos Koltai's film debut, Fateless (2005), based on the autobiographical prose of the Hungarian Nobel Prize laureate, ...
'THE NIGHTMARE OF THEIR CHOICE': PHOTOGRAPHIC DISPATCHES FROM THE FRONT LINE
Apr 01, 2006; ... UNDERSTANDING THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF WAR PHOTOGRAPHY FROM ITS NINETEENTHCENTURY BEGINNINGS TO THE PRESENT-DAY ERA IS INEXTRICABLY ENTWINED WITH MAPPING OUT THE CHANGES IN THE CHARACTER OF PHOTOGRAPHIC REPRESENTATIONS FROM THE FRONT LINE OVER A PERIOD OF 150 YEARS. Social ...
THE KOKODA MIRACLE: AN INTERVIEW WITH DIRECTOR ALISTER GRIERSON
Apr 01, 2006; ... AFTER YEARS OF WATCHING AMERICAN WAR FILMS, AND SOME DAMNED GOOD ONES TOO, IT'S GREAT TO SEE AN AUSTRALIAN WAR STORY ON THE BIG SCREEN. Kokoda is director Alister Grierson's first feature film, released nationwide on Anzac day 2006. 'it's the seminal Australian story,' he says ...
Women Beware Women: Zhang Yimou's 'Raise The Red Lantern'
Apr 01, 2006; ... Certainly in the world of this film, women need to beware women, to paraphrase the title of thomas Middleton's 1657 tragedy, and it is not altogether inapt to reference this Jacobean work in which women behave treacherously towards each other with tragic results. However, the title of this essay ...
Dancing in the Dark: Personality and Politics In 'Cabaret'
Apr 01, 2006; ... About halfway through Cabaret (bob fosse, 1972) there is an abrupt cut from revellers in the restaurant of berlin's hotel Kempinski to a corpse lying in a street. Police constables stand around and there are Communist party placards. A KPD flag flutters in a breeze. A couple of paraplegic war ...
Not At All Easy: Granada TV's 'King Lear'
Apr 01, 2006; ... WHEN A LITERARY WORK is transferred to the screen, the most interesting and entertaining result often comes from an artistic concept that sees its primary aesthetic purpose as a response to, rather than a replication of, the original in a new medium. it's still very important for viewers, with ...
'Lantana': The Threat and the Attraction of the Exotic
Apr 01, 2006; ... WE CAN LEARN WHAT'S GOOD and what's bad, what's generous and unselfish, what's cruel and mean, from fiction ... 'thou shalt not' might reach the head, but it takes 'once upon a time' to reach the heart. (Phillip Pullman, writer of children's books)1 Introduction Lantana, directed ...
'Look Both Ways': Seeing is not Necessarily Believing
Apr 01, 2006; ... YOU MAY LOOK TO THE RIGHT and look to the left but, in spite of what that old song tells us, that is no guarantee that you'll never get run over. There is too much about life that is sheerly arbitrary, too much that we can't be careful about, too much scope for luck, bad as well as good, for us ...
Sometimes you need the help of the Universe: 'Run Lola Run'
Apr 01, 2006; ... FOCUS ON NARRATIVE THERE IS NO GETTING AWAY from the fact that humans are a meaning-making species. While some insist that german writer-director tom Tykwer intended the three outcomes of Lola's search for money to be random events illustrating the meaninglessness of life, others claim ...
FIRST PERSON SINGULAR: THE POWER OF DIGITAL STORYTELLING
Apr 01, 2006; ... IT is a truth almost universally acknowledged that modern students have fluent fingertips and spend a lot of their spare time ripping, burning, gaming and instant-messaging their mates. For anyone who can navigate LimeWire and type nearly as fast as they can talk, the low-tech parameters of what ...
REINVENTING THE MEDIA CLASSROOM: Arguments from Both Sides
Apr 01, 2006; ... Introduction THIS article is based on the keynote address I presented to the annual ATOM state Conference held in Melbourne in December 2005. The original brief was to expand on some personal thoughts about future possible directions in the teaching of Media. I took the ...
IS THAT A FILM IN YOUR POCKET, OR ARE YOU JUST GLAD TO SEE ME?: THE INTERNATIONAL PORTABLE FILM FESTIVAL
Apr 01, 2006; ... HAVE portable device, will watch film. For us film addicts, portable film viewing is probably not going to help us. Imagine being able to watch films on the train home, on your lunch-break, wherever. The world's first International Portable Film Festival will be 'screened' in July 2006, ...
'KOKODA': LOST AND FOUND ON THE TRAIL
Apr 01, 2006; ... TO AUSTRALIANS OF A CERTAIN AGE, AND EVEN TO SOME YOUNGER, THE 'KOKODA TRAIL' HAS ACQUIRED THE SHEEN OF LEGENDARY SIGNIFICANCE. IT is one of those place names that evokes not just a period - 1942 and World War two - or a location, but resonates also with a sense of threat to Australia's ...
OFFERINGS TO THE GOD OF SPEED: THE WORLD'S FASTEST INDIAN
Apr 01, 2006; ... This New Zealand film tells the story of real-life Kiwi Burt Munro, and his obsession with entering his souped-up 1920 Indian Twin Scout motorcycle in the speed trials at Utah's Bonneville salt-flats. DIRECTOR Roger Donaldson, who also wrote the screenplay, had already made a ...
IT'S ABOUT Time, IT'S ABOUT Space: Crank TV
Apr 01, 2006; ... We've been waiting for it, and now internet TV has finally come to Australia. America and Europe have had broadband content, on-demand television for years, and now radio broadcaster Austereo bites the bullet and moves its music into the internet space. AUSTRALIA'S first internet music ...
BIG SCREEN, HIGH HOPES: BRINGING AUSTRALIAN FILM TO SCHOOL KIDS
Apr 01, 2006; ... BIG Screen started its life as a Centenary of Federation project in 2001. It was meant to be a one-off regional touring film festival promoting Australian cinema, but was so successful that it has continued and to date we have presented over seventy festivals around remote, rural regional ...
'I KNOW I'M NOT ALONE': A MIDDLE-EASTERN MUSICAL ODYSSEY
Apr 01, 2006; ... WHY MUST I FEEL LIKE THIS TODAY? I'M A SOLDIER BUT AFRAID SOMETIMES TO FACE THE THINGS THAT MAY BLOCK THE SUN FROM SHININ' RAYS AND FILL MY LIFE WITH SHADES OF GREY BUT STILL I LONG TO FIND A WAY SO TODAY I PRAY FOR GRACE ['PRAY FOR GRACE' BY MICHAEL FRANTI] I Know I'm Not Alone ...
Stories OF Us: MADE With Students, For Students
Apr 01, 2006; ... Stories of Us is an unusual series of film resources for primary and secondary students. STUDENTS were involved in every stage of the development and production process. They collaborated with filmmakers in brainstorming the subjects, developing the characters and workshopping the ...
IN Search OF Mozart: A CONVERSATION WITH writer-director Phil Grabsky
Apr 01, 2006; ... Phil Grabsky has been making documentaries for British television and the cinema since the early 1990s. HE ALSO DIRECTED the muchacclaimed feature documentaries Muhammad Ali: Through the Eyes of the World (2001) and The Boy Who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan (2004). Grabsky and his ...
THE Chronicles OF Narnia: THE Lion, THE Witch AND THE Wardrobe
Apr 01, 2006; ... The beginning of this epic film story opens with dark, frightening scenes of London being bombed during World War Two. QUICKLY, the film version of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (Andrew Adamson, 2005) creates a sense of urgency in getting the four ...
LES GOCK: SO YOU WANNA BE A ROCK STAR: MAKING THE FANTASY A REALITY
Apr 01, 2006; ... LES GOCK: SO YOU WANNA BE A ROCK STAR: MAKING THE FANTASY A REALITY So you want to be a rock star, huh? PERHAPS you're looking for advice on how to wield a microphone stand to gain star status on stage, how to wow a crowd with no more than a skimpy outfit and a well-timed hair ...
MICHAEL FUTCHER AND HELEN HOWARD: THE DROWNING BRIDE
Apr 01, 2006; ... MICHAEL FUTCHER AND HELEN HOWARD: THE DROWNING BRIDE The Drowning Bride explores the deep and universal themes of guilt, love, forgiveness and the ability to recover from life's tragedies. IT explores how one can 'move on' and live fully again. The play is firmly set in ...
EVENTS
Apr 01, 2006; ... General activities ATOM Film, television and Multimedia awards The ATOM Film, Television and Multimedia Awards recognize the achievements of Australian and New Zealand professionals, educators and students in thirty-two categories. The Awards are open to students, ...
SCREENTECH
Apr 01, 2006; ... Bearing Fruit: Apple reinvents itself - again The beginning of the year is generally a very quiet time for the creative technology sector with little new and exciting to report. THAT is of course except for that Californian fruit company whose annual holy day known as MacWorld is ...
Buffy THE Vampire Slayer: USING A POPULAR CULTURE POST-MODERN TEXT IN THE CLASSROOM
Apr 01, 2006; ... IT'S THE LAST PERIOD on a Friday afternoon. The air is thick and your twenty-six Year 11 students sigh heavily as you explain, yet again, that Lady Macbeth cannot be said to be entirely responsible for the downfall of her husband. MOST will blame Lady Macbeth anyway, so the kerfuffle of ...
Harnessing THE Power OF QuickTime
Apr 01, 2006; ... As online publishing systems become increasingly audiovisual (thanks to processor, bandwidth and software improvements), it's worth re-investigating just how well the QuickTime software architecture can be leveraged to enhance and smooth the production, presentation and delivery of online ...
TABLOID CURRENT AFFAIRS PROGRAMS AND THE Production of Meaning
Apr 01, 2006; ... The contemporary media landscape is heavily saturated with competing segments of dissonant information. ON television, these segments come in an incredibly diverse range of forms, such as programs, advertisements, sound bites, voiceovers, written text and soundtracks. The primary ...
TEACHING FOOTBALL NARRATIVES: HOW TO SURVIVE WORLD CUP MADNESS AND KEEP TALKING ABOUT FILM
Apr 01, 2006; ... The 2006 World Cup in Germany marks the moment when Australian international football will rejoin the great family of football nations on the international stage, after more than three decades on the outer. Sport and media commentators are already bracing themselves for Australia's first match ...