Australian Screen Education back issues from July 2006:
Tales of the Unspeakable: Teenage Depression and Suicide in 2:37
Jul 01, 2006; ... 'Are you depressed?' 'You know that, do you?' He sighs. 'It's staring everyone in the face, like a slashed throat.' He says after a time, 'I'm not going to kill myself. But I could, just as well.' From 'Strangers When We Meet', in the collection of short stories Midnight All Day ...
AN OVERVIEW OF CONTRASTING SPACES IN AUSTRALIAN FEATURE FILMS
Jul 01, 2006; ... In the first article in a series for Screen Education, Andrew Zielinski outlines the work he developed for the Cinema Studies course on Australian National Cinema that he taught at Flinders University. It is hoped that teachers will be able to extract valuable information and lesson ideas from ...
LANDSCAPE: SPACES IN THE OUTBACK
Jul 01, 2006; ... The central image against which the Australian character measures himself is the bush. K. Schaffer, Women and the Bush, p.52 In the two hundred years since white settlement, 'the outback' has emerged as a fundamental cultural creation. Literature, art, and then cinema used the ...
SIGNS OF LIFE: SOUL AND CINEPHILIA IN 'BLADE RUNNER'
Jul 01, 2006; ... Following its original theatrical release in 1982, in various cities across America video copies of Ridley Scott's Blade Runner rapidly became the focus for beer-and-dope get-togethers - 'Blade Runner parties' - at which fans pored over each scene and learned every line, edit and camera move. As ...
'The Charismatic' Catastrophist : An Inconvenient Truth
Jul 01, 2006; ... As Gore points out, global warming is no longer a scientific problem - the scientists are in agreement almost to a person. It is a political problem, and thus it is up to people like himself to take on the job of shifting the paradigm. While many popular recent documentaries have won a ...
SPINNING A
Jul 01, 2006; ... In this extract from her paper 'Spinning the Web Site: Understanding New Media Literacies', Anne Cranny-Francis unpacks the meanings offered by a website's choice of textual strategies and links, taking as a case study the website of the National Museum of Australia. Analysing the ...
Disconcerting Truths: Uncovering the Values in Desperate Housewives
Jul 01, 2006; ... Main Characters: *Susan Mayer *Lynette Scavo *Bree Van De Kamp *Gabrielle Solis Their Families and Neighbours *Tom Scavo *Preston, Porter and Parker Scavo *Rex Van De Kamp *Andrew and Danielle Van De Kamp *Carlos ...
Programming Life: Tim Clucas and Reality TV
Jul 01, 2006; ... Either you love it or you hate it, but whichever way you swing there's no denying that Reality TV has arrived and is here to stay. True, we're a nation of voyeurs, taking pleasure through the adventures and mischievous behaviour of others. To this we admit, but apparently we've been practising ...
IT'S A FINE LINE BETWEEN PLEASURE AND PAIN: REPRESENTATIONS OF MASCULINITY IN 'GLADIATOR'
Jul 01, 2006; ... GLADIATOR AS HOLLYWOOD FILM This article on Gladiator (Ridley Scott, 2000) was inspired by my own teaching of the film. During this process the limitations of the current system of analysis taught in Western Australian High Schools became apparent. The syllabus encourages three main ...
Haunted by the Past: Ways of Remembering the Holocaust on Film
Jul 01, 2006; ... Sixty years have elapsed since the end of World War Two, so the Holocaust is now less of a burning issue than it once was. Nevertheless, its ashes smoulder in history and memory. A continual stream of publications and media productions attest to continuing concern with this catastrophic event, ...
ISLAM IN THE MEDIA: CARTOONS AND CONTEXT
Jul 01, 2006; ... In early 2002 - a matter of months after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 - I moved from the US to Turkey. Prior to this, I had lived in two countries, the United States and the United Kingdom, and travelled extensively in Europe, primarily the northern section, and a little bit in ...
Kodak on Campus: Stop By. Shoot Film
Jul 01, 2006; ... In the world of video, aesthetic improvements come with newer hardware; while in the world of film, with its quality film stocks and lenses, one can achieve extraordinary results with 25 - or even 50-year-old cameras. Kodak's new initiative, Kodak On Campus - the first outside the US and ...
Sickness in the Family: Emotional Frigidity, Corruption and Responsibility in 'The Ice Storm'
Jul 01, 2006; ... The Ice Storm (Ang Lee, 1997) is essentially a parable: a story whose purpose is to deliver a lesson on morality. Set in 1973, it portrays a few days in the lives of two families residing in the affluent town of New Canaan on the brink of, and in the wake of, a tragedy. It uses the family model ...
BLOGS IN MEDIA EDUCATION: A Beginning
Jul 01, 2006; ... In this article I would like to introduce and explore the possible use of blogs in media education. What follows applies, more or less equally, for students and teachers, so if you are wondering about how blogs may be relevant to your professional practice as a teacher, or as a classroom tool, ...
EVENTS
Jul 01, 2006; ... With Amber Nelson We are on the home stretch in schools and universities. It is competition entry time for Media and Arts students. Competitions and festivals provide a way for students to get their work 'out there', and the exhibition of these works seeks to inspire the next generation ...
All Around the World: Ballet
Jul 01, 2006; ... '[We heard] about this interesting-sounding thing: a reunion that was occurring in New Orleans, June 2000 with all the surviving members of the Ballets Russes dance company, who were flying in from all over the world. We thought there might be a film in that ...' Dayna Goldfine and ...
POP Goes the Teacher: WHY TELEVISION TEXTS ARE WORTH TEACHING
Jul 01, 2006; ... SINCE the signals of the first television broadcasts beamed their way into the depths of space, we have questioned the role of the mass media in the lives of young people. And at times, it seems, with reason. It is hard to ignore the role that the media has played in shaping the desired image of ...
Looking Closer: Structure, Style and Narrative in 'American Beauty'
Jul 01, 2006; ... When a critic asked the radical innovator Jean-Luc Godard if he believed that a movie should have a beginning, middle and end, the iconoclastic filmmaker replied: 'Yes - but not necessarily in that order.'1 Mainstream film directors from around the mid-90s have increasingly explored ...
Logic and Narrative in 'Spirited Away'
Jul 01, 2006; ... At a rare press conference given by director Hayao Miyazaki for his animated film Spirited Away in 2001, a journalist remarked on the 'freedom of the author' in the film - 'a feeling that you [Miyazaki] can take ... the story anywhere you wish, independent of logic, even.'1 Spirited Away ...
MAN IRRESPONSIBLE: NEWLAND ARCHER IN The Age of Innocence
Jul 01, 2006; ... Martin Scorsese's adaptation of Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence (1993) is often read as the story of a sensitive man whose passion for an unconventional woman is crushed by a rigid society. However, a close observation of the ways in which Scorsese uses film language to present the ...
'Well, We Have a Go, Don't We?': Hamlet on Film
Jul 01, 2006; ... Five films in English offer extremely valuable comparisons for the teaching and exploration of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Each film has visualized material in the play text about the main character and his 'world' with different emphases and any two versions you care to choose will bring out useful ...
Kandahar: Journeys of Hope English Program 2006
Jul 01, 2006; ... 'If Walls are High, the Sky is Higher Still' Unit description: A film unit that is organized around the concept of 'refugees' and their portrayal in film, fiction, non-fiction and websites. This unit can be adapted for Year 9 and above. For more advanced classes or senior ...
Kandahar: Hope and Reason in the Art of Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Jul 01, 2006; ... 'If Walls are High, the Sky is Higher Still' Kandahar is the story of Nafas (Niloufar Pazira), a young Afghan émigré and journalist who has journeyed from Canada into the heart of Taliban-controlled Afghanistan to rescue her traumatized and abandoned sister. Nafas' sister has been the ...
OPAL DREAM: A STUDY GUIDE
Jul 01, 2006; ... About the film Opal Dream (Peter Cattaneo, 2006) is the story of Pobby, Dingan and the Williamson family, set in an Australian opal-mining community. Pobby and Dingan are the invisible friends of Kellyanne (Sapphire Boyce), the 9-year-old daughter of opal miner Rex Williamson (Vince ...
What a wonderful world - not!
Jul 01, 2006; ... Each year, the Melbourne International Film Festival screens films that challenge our politics and the way we view the world. At this year's festival, from the 26 July to 13 August, MIFF screened a series of documentaries under the banner 'Globalised', creating a section that explores ...