Screen Education #82

Screen Education is a quarterly magazine for media teachers, and for primary and secondary teachers interested in harnessing the power of visual media to stimulate learning. It is essential reading for those with an interest in media literacy, offering a unique and engaging perspective on screen education, and is an invaluable resource for upper secondary students and university students studying film.

Each issue provides the reader with practical classroom ideas, lesson plans and activities along with essays, study guides, updates on new technology, and research into media pedagogy. The magazine also analyses and offers ways to navigate the ever-changing new media landscape and the benefits (e.g. interactive learning tools) and potential issues (e.g. cyberbullying and pornography) that come with it. Screen Education publishes articles by educators, scholars and critics, and is partially refereed.

ISSUE 82 (WINTER 2016) CONTENTS

New & Notable
'Matters of Consequence: Growing Up with The Little Prince' – Adolfo Aranjuez
'A Vote of One's Own: Suffragette and Women's Rights' – Carolyn Leslie

Screens in the Classroom
'Sound and Fury: Ambition, Absence and Anger in Justin Kurzel's Macbeth' – Sarah Ward
'It's the End of the World and We Love It: Investigating the Popularity of Post-apocalyptic Cinema' – David Crewe
'Confronting the Zombie-pocalypse: Deconstructing Conflict in The Walking Dead' – Louise Lavery
'The Balance of Power: A Study Guide to Kung Fu Panda' – Bridget Hanna

Blockbuster Central
'Not So Far, Far Away: The Cultural Ubiquity of Star Wars' – Peter Gutiérrez

Filmmaker Profile
'Kathryn Bigelow' – Nicholas Godfrey

Teaching Media
'Unearthing Learning Potential: Using Minecraft in the Classroom' – James Crafti
'Hollywood Calling: HitRecord and the Power of Online Collaboration' – Melanie Fawcett

Tech’d Out
'Google Schools? A Chromebook Case Study' – Peter Quinn
'Sync or Swim: Adobe Voice' – Kevin Lavery
'Virtual Toolkit' – Jane Shields

Film as Text
'An American Allegory: Hysteria, Media Dissent and Good Night, and Good Luck' – Anthony Carew
'Stages of Life: Art, Time and Meaning in Synecdoche, New York' – David Crewe
'Conjuring the Real: Ghosts, Technology and Landscape in Lake Mungo’ – Tyson Wils